Posted by Bill Vermillion on 10/22/05 04:25

In article <MPG.1dc2e2c152f480d198a08e@news.nabs.net>,
Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote:
> (normanstrong@comcast.net) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> It may be necessary to letterbox a movie in order to see the entire frame,
>> but it isn't a good thing. I've never seen a letterboxed picture in a movie
>> theater.
>
>You haven't been to many theaters, then.

>There are quite a few that have 1.85:1 screens only, and 2.35:1 movies
>have black bars at the top and bottom.

>Of course, you may have theaters that just let the extra width of a 2.35:1
>movie fall onto the curtains at the side of a 1.85:1 screen. I know I have
>seen this at some screens. If you say this is preferable to letterboxing,
>you're an idiot.

I liked the older theatres that had curtains that only exposed the
amount of screen needed - so they'd pull all the way back for
the 2.35:1. Of course that was before the current 'stadium
seating' with screens just almost being the far wall.



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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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