Posted by Stan Brown on 12/23/17 11:26

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:28:05 GMT in alt.video.dvd, Mr. Mike favored
us with...
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:19:04 GMT, "Edward Holub" <edwardholub@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Somewhere I read that someone was complaining that the existing DVD
> >version of Ben-Hur didn't have the aspect ration correct. The writer had
> >hoped that the new version got it right.
> > Any thoughts on this?
>
> Like the widescreen laser disc, the image on the new release is VERY "wide." In
> fact, if I shrink the image using my Toshiba player so that I can see the
> absolute left and right in a window-box format, it measures at something like
> 2.97:1!!! (Does this make sense?) When viewing with the "default" image, it is
> approximately 2.52:1.

Gee, if only there were some sort of Web site that listed movie
aspect ratios. :-)

http://us.imdb.com, search Ben-Hur, then click "Technical specs" to
go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/technical



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