letterbox top/bottom hdtv wide screen

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When playing a wide screen dvd, on my wide screen tv, I am getting the bars
on top and bottom. Is this normal? Is there a different setting we should
use? Appreciate any input. Thx.

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Thx, John. We've just spent about 2 hours fooling around with this. LOL.


"John 'Shaggy' Kolesar" <spam@shagg.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:41:15 -0400, <cybernana59@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > When playing a wide screen dvd, on my wide screen tv, I am getting the
bars
> > on top and bottom. Is this normal? Is there a different setting we
should
> > use? Appreciate any input. Thx.
>
> There are three different common screen sizes for material. To keep it
> simple, call them square (regular TV), widescreen (fits your HDTV), and
> super widescreen (you still get bars on top and bottom). There is no way
> one screen size can fit all three without stretching and/or distoring the
> image to some extent. Basically, what you are seeing is normal and
nothing
> to worry about.
>
>
> John.

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> How would we know if the DVD we got was Widescreen, or SUPER Widescreen?
>
Check the DVD package. 4:3, 1.85:1, and 2.35:1 are typical aspect ratios. A
regular TV is 4:3 and a widescreen TV is 1.77:1 which usually handles a
1.85:1 fully because of overscan.

Pat

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"Wyenaught" <cybernana59@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Oh, John, one more thing if you can answer:
>
> How would we know if the DVD we got was Widescreen, or SUPER
> Widescreen?

Lately they print the aspect ratio right on the package.
Look for anamorphic widescreen.

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"Brian The Demolition Man Little" <x@y.z> wrote in news:I5ydnSx8
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> Dave Oldridge wrote:
>> Lately they print the aspect ratio right on the package.
>> Look for anamorphic widescreen.
>
> With the exception of anything from Warner, but I've gotten
> it down to an art of decryping what aspect ratio the feature
> is in by what they say on the back.
>
> If it mentions being presented in a "matted widescreen" format
> then its 1.85:1.
>
> It it mentions being presented in a "letterbox widescreen
> preserving the theatrical scope" then its 2.35:1.
>
> In either case, all I care about is if the feature is in its PROPER
> aspect ratio that the filmmakers intended it to be in. Anything
> outside of that is wrong, and I won't stand for that.

Agreed, but there are two ways of doing the thing. In the anamorphic
prints, there will still be bars top and bottom if the aspect ratio is
any higher than 1.78 to 1, but they will be smaller. And, if you try to
play the print straight up on a 4:3 TV, people will appear tall and thin.
You need a TV that handles 16:9 straight up (which even some SD sets do
now) to handle the anamorphic prints and you need to set the DVD player
to take advantage of the feature. But I see more and more stuff coming
out in the format (most DVD players will hand it out to any TV depending
on settings).

--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

A false witness is worse than no witness at all.

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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:41:15 -0400, "Wyenaught"
<cybernana59@hotmail.com> wrote:

>When playing a wide screen dvd, on my wide screen tv, I am getting the bars
>on top and bottom. Is this normal? Is there a different setting we should
>use? Appreciate any input. Thx.
>

2.35:1 on 16:9 TV - about 1/4 bar area