Posted by Richard C. on 04/23/07 21:01

Start saving for a larger widescreen TV.

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"def456" <def456@none.none> wrote in message
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> "Derek Janssen" <ejanss@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Rich Clark wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 23, 9:39 am, "def456" <def...@none.none> wrote:
>>>
>>>>A lot of movies now come out on DVD in 2.35:1 aspect ratio, width to
>>>>height,
>>>>so called anamorphic. That causes a large black area at the top and
>>>>bottom
>>>>of the screen and poor picture quality with ordinary 4:3 TVs, and also
>>>>significant black bands at the top/bottom with the newer 16:9 widescreen
>>>>TVs. Since nobody has TVs to view 2.35:1 properly, why do they produce
>>>>it?
>>>
>>>
>>> Because that's how the movies were made.
>>>
>>> There's a strategy for dealing with this: don't look at the black
>>> bars. Look at the picture.
>>
>> Or turn off your lights, and watch the "black bars" disappear.
>>
>> Derek Janssen
>> ejanss@comcast.net
>
> But the people in the picture are too small. I have a 25" TV with 4:3
> aspect ratio. The screen is 16" high, which is the size (height) of the
> people in the movie. With the anamorphic 2.35:1 DVDs the people are only
> 8" tall, which is much too small. So in effect they are reducing my TV to
> half size, from a 25" to a 12.5" TV, which as you can see doesn't work
> right. I would have to move my chair twice as close to watch it, but then
> I can see the pixels and lines between the horizontal lines, so it is
> terrible quality. The 2.35:1 is just way too extreme.
>
> They need to do away with 2.35:1 ratio on DVDs, or provide the option to
> automatically crop it to 16:9. I don't have much of a problem with 16:9
> aspect ratio, which is about 1.8 compared to the standard 1.3.
>
> As far as that goes...
> Who goes to movie theaters anymore? I haven't for over 25 years. Almost
> everybody watches movies these days on cable/satellite TV or rental DVDs.
> I use the latter method (Netflix). So production of movies for theaters is
> now outmoded, as is the 2.35:1 aspect ratio!
>

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