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Thread: What's the deal with widescreen? |
    
Bronze Member Username: Smokey847
Post Number: 45
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 12:40 am: |
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I don't understand it. Why buy or rent a widescreen DVD? Why would you just want to utilize half of your widescreen television? Could someone please elaborate? |
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Silver Member Username: Hd_fanatic
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Post Number: 192
Registered: May-05
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| Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 01:07 am: |
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Wide-screen DVD's that are 1.78:1 will utilize all of a 16:9 wide-screen television with no bars. Some "widescreen" discs are 2.35:1 which is animorphic wide-screen, and on these discs, small bars on the top and bottom are present.
Some wide-screen televisions have a zoom feature that gets rid of the bars, but at the cost of losing some of the content from the sides. |
Gold Member Username: Samijubal
Post Number: 3688
Registered: Jul-04
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| Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 10:48 am: |
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Any widescreen DVD can be anamorphic. It's not about aspect ratio, it's the encoding of the disc. Anamorphic DVDs raise the resolution on HDTVs, the picture is clearly better. It makes no difference on 4x3 TVs. There's your reason for buying or renting widescreen DVDs. Almost all new DVDs are anamorphic.
http://gregl.net/videophile/anamorphic.htm |
Bronze Member Username: Smokey847
Post Number: 46
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 03:40 pm: |
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Thanks for clearing things up. So, it's not about the aspect ratio, but more-so about picture quality. Before I had a widescreen television, I was always convinced that the widescreen DVDs would fill up the whole screen on the TV, so I was confused. Thanks for help, guys! |
Gold Member Username: Samijubal
Post Number: 3697
Registered: Jul-04
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| Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 09:03 pm: |
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Most DVD players have a zoom that will get rid of the black bars if you don't want to watch discs with them. Some TVs will zoom 2.35:1 movies to full screen too. Either way you're going to get bars on a 2.35:1 movie, if it's widescreen, they will be top and bottom, if it's 1.33:1 (4x3) you'll have bars on the sides.
Like HD said, 1:78:1 DVDs will fill the screen. 1.85:1 discs may have a little bit of bars or they may not depending on how much overscan the TV has. 2:35:1 movies will have pretty big bars. |
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