Posted by Mark W on 12/23/53 11:26

"Mr. Mike" <mjq@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>

The obvious solution to DVD releases of old movies that were made in very
very wide aspect ratios is this:
Cut the image in two halves, left and right. The DVD image would have the
left hand side of the screen at the top, and the right hand side at the
bottom.
Perhaps some special glasses could be included in the case to, like,
reassemble the picture.

Wasn't there some odd film format that involved three projectors, showing
the left, middle and right portions of the final picture?

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