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Posted by def456 on 04/23/07 17:30
"Derek Janssen" <ejanss@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Rich Clark wrote:
>
>> On Apr 23, 9:39 am, "def456" <def...@none.none> wrote:
>>
>>>A lot of movies now come out on DVD in 2.35:1 aspect ratio, width to
>>>height,
>>>so called anamorphic. That causes a large black area at the top and
>>>bottom
>>>of the screen and poor picture quality with ordinary 4:3 TVs, and also
>>>significant black bands at the top/bottom with the newer 16:9 widescreen
>>>TVs. Since nobody has TVs to view 2.35:1 properly, why do they produce
>>>it?
>>
>>
>> Because that's how the movies were made.
>>
>> There's a strategy for dealing with this: don't look at the black
>> bars. Look at the picture.
>
> Or turn off your lights, and watch the "black bars" disappear.
>
> Derek Janssen
> ejanss@comcast.net
But the people in the picture are too small. I have a 25" TV with 4:3 aspect
ratio. The screen is 16" high, which is the size (height) of the people in
the movie. With the anamorphic 2.35:1 DVDs the people are only 8" tall,
which is much too small. So in effect they are reducing my TV to half size,
from a 25" to a 12.5" TV, which as you can see doesn't work right. I would
have to move my chair twice as close to watch it, but then I can see the
pixels and lines between the horizontal lines, so it is terrible quality.
The 2.35:1 is just way too extreme.
They need to do away with 2.35:1 ratio on DVDs, or provide the option to
automatically crop it to 16:9. I don't have much of a problem with 16:9
aspect ratio, which is about 1.8 compared to the standard 1.3.
As far as that goes...
Who goes to movie theaters anymore? I haven't for over 25 years. Almost
everybody watches movies these days on cable/satellite TV or rental DVDs. I
use the latter method (Netflix). So production of movies for theaters is now
outmoded, as is the 2.35:1 aspect ratio!
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