Posted by P Pron on 12/23/91 11:26

Stan Brown wrote:
|| 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
||


and http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingup4.htm is worth a look,
too....

paul

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