DVD and Widescreen - WHY???

Posted by Allan [IP: 157.123.138.60] on December 11, 1998 at 07:31:56:

In Reply to: DVD and Widescreen - WHY??? posted by Mike E on December 10, 1998 at 14:36:32:

I am just curious...

If, way back when, they had images of curtains above and below the wide screen picture instead of just black, would people be complaining about letterbox movies?

By curtains I mean what you see above and below the screen or stage in a theater.

By the way, many DVD players have a mode that stretches out the picture sideways and works great for anamorphic movies on 4:3 TV sets. It is intended to fill the screen and do automatic pan and scan but most DVD's don't have the panning data built in. Thus the actual result is just overscanning off the sides.

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• DVD and Widescreen - WHY??? - mike 18:10:54 04/12/99 (0)
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