HDTV widescreen and DVD question...

[AND1]

For those who have HDTV widescreen TVs can you play DVDs without the black bars? I know there are 2 kinds of DVD the one's that look like they have 1 bar up and down which I think are the 1.85 and ones that look like they have double bars 2.35 something.

Now I know the 1.85 ones play full screen on a widescreen HDTV but do the other ones have any lines?

[Craig Tucker]

There will still be black bars. The HDTV's, have a higher resolution to produce a sharper image, but the aspect ratio is the same. You would have to change the aspect ratio of a TV to play a 2.35:1 with no black bars top and bottom. And if you did that you would have black bars at the sides on a 1.85:1 video, either that or you would have to cut parts off the top and bottom of the image..

[Marco33]

WS DVD's on regular TV will look kinda squished. Like the top and bottom of the picture are pushed towards each other. So the people look kinda fat. Some DVD players have a function to stretch it to normal size.

Most WS HDTV's have a fill function that will stretch this picture to the proper size.

Since most movies are shot in 2 basic hights you will still get black bars on most WS DVD's. I find that (mostly) Drama's & comedy's will totaly fill the whole WD HDTV picture while Action & Sci-fi's will still leave small black bars.

It's realy a Director's vision, or in the case of George Lucas... lack there of, how the movie will be shot.

[Conquest10]

wsdvd on regular tv will make the people look real skinny not fat.