Posted by Lincoln Spector on 12/04/06 02:40

"Walter Traprock" <wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:wetraprock-87F402.23254302122006@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
>> > There should be NO compromise in movie playback. Problem is, too many
>> > people literally can't tell there is any distortion. How often have
>> > you seen tvs with uncalibrated colour or basketball player stretched or
>> > squashed, midget-looking actors and the idiots watching them could care
>> > less? The moment you start taking cues from those people, you might as
>> > well jump off a bridge.
>>
>> By 'compromise', I refer only to the native shape of the raster field.
>> Of course all films should present, within that field, in their
>> original aspect ratios, i.e., with no squashing. (Thus, until
>> Hollywood makes a true 16:9 movie... that'll always mean gray bars.)
>
> With a good TV there are NEVER any grey bars! Bars only belong on
> the sides of the picture when the aspect ratio is narrower than
> Academy, and the bars tend to be black, because regular tvs don't have
> burn-in problems.
What about if the AR is wider than the TV?

Lincoln

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