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Posted by WinField on 04/25/07 20:11
Last night I decided to race my FULLSCREEN copy of "Die Another Day"
against my WIDESCREEN copy of same James Bond movie.
I would be using two separate TV's side-by-side along the same wall.
The object was to test Derek's moronic assertion re: how badly movie
studios prep and process FULLSCREEN movies compared to their sexy,
popular WIDESCREEN counterparts.
One problem I had was that my TV's were different sizes. If anything,
my goal was to stack the deck in favor of WS, and against FS.
My TV's were 36" and 27" in size. So I had to run FS version on the 36"
TV to exacerbate any BDfs's (bovine-derek full-screen) blemishes. You
know, the ones that drag-down a DVD FS movie to VHS tape level. ha!
The sexy, popular WS would be played on the 27" TV to give it that extra
sheen and silky look. The trade-off would be a smaller picture, which
could be tweaked by viewing distance, if needed.
I would freeze-frame the same movie still on both TV's. On the WS
version, I would compare two ways: original aspect-ratio and a zoomed
frame approximating what the FS version was showing.
Results: the FS version had noticeably better detail. When the WS frame
was zoomed to approximate the FS view, the full-screen picture actually
looked high-definition compared to what the 27" WS TV was showing.
Sharks! & yes, Derek IS a gerbil-butt.
- = - = - = -
To be fair, the WS version showed a hell-of-a-lot more ... PICTURE!
Bond and Jinx sneaking around in the airplane cargo hold. [FS version:
only Bond and a part of a car can be seen - Jinx isn't even visible)
Red car arrowed down into south Asian rice-paddy. Helicopter finally
hovering and flyable. [FS version: red car completely missing -
helicopter hovering]
- = - = - = -
Final musings:
A DVD is just a container. It's mpeg-2 decoder just dutifully
follows rules and standards. Your DVD player cannot add I-frames, B or
P frames. It reaches into it's box (720 x 480) and processes what's there.
I read somewhere that HD has up to 6 times higher resolution than
standard DVD. If the original movie source has this much resolution to
burn (much more, perhaps), filling up a full-screen movie frame to the
max 720 x 480 isn't a problem. Which should explain how FS has
potentially much better detail than a WS frame.
- winf
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