Posted by SuperM on 04/24/07 02:23

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:28:09 +0100, "the dog from that film you saw"
<dsb@removethisportionbtinternet.com> Gave us:

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>"Richard C." <post-age@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>>>> because that's how they were made, and they consider it better to show
>>>> you the film as made rather than cropped.
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>>>> having said that, there's nothing to stop dvd makers putting a crop
>>>> signal on the dvd so that those people who dont care for authenticity
>>>> can have the film chopped to 16:9 - i really dont know why this isnt
>>>> used as standard - no need to put effort into panning, just crop and be
>>>> damned.
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>>> I agree. My DVD player has that option, but it doesn't work. I asked the
>>> company that made the DVD player and they said that depends on the DVD,
>>> and the makers of the DVDs need to add that option to the coding. It
>>> wouldn't cost them anything extra. Why don't they?
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>> Just watch the movie!
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>but you're speaking as an intelligent movie fan ( i assume).
>given that when dvd was invented it wanted to be mass market, and there was
>no certainty that it would be, it's surprising the dvd forum didnt make it
>mandatory.
>it's just 1 byte after all - and then 16:9 movies get cropped to 4:3, 2.35:1
>become 16:9.
>those of us who like films as intended are happy, people with a 'fill my
>screen' fixation are too.


It has absolutely nothing to do with bytes.

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