anyone have a widescreen TV here?

[Beautiful Alone]

if so..then can you confirm that a non-anamorphic dvd look really like this on a widescreen TV?



I was really disappionted with the widescreen TV when i first founded out that it looked like this. hmm...does it really good like that? I need someone to confirm it.

[BJ_M]

well on mine a 4:3 can fill the whole screen as the tv will fill it out - but that sample looks like black boarders were added so it is not correct ..

[Beautiful Alone]

well..that's non-anamorphic 2.35:1 aspect ratio movie.

[LeeBear]

I watch my movies on a 16:9 HDTV Toshiba and I can tell you that picture you show is very misleading. First off the picture is showing a letterboxed movie using the TV's 4:3 mode, that's why you see the gray lines on the right and left. You would never watch a letterboxed movie in that mode. From my research on 16:9 TV's I've found that all of them has at least 3 different modes you can set the TV to. The first being full mode basically everything fills the screen stretching if it has to. The second 4:3 mode like the picture shows basically the left and right is blank to keep the 4:3 aspect ratio. The third mode is called theater or Zoom mode, basically it takes the picture and basically crop off the top and bottom to get the 16:9 aspect ratio. This is the mode you would use to watch a Letterboxed movie. The gray lines you see in your picture will be gone so will the black bars from the top and bottom (well most of it since that movie doesn't look exactly anamorphic). If the movie wasn't letterboxed and was in fact Anamorhpic you would just use the "Full" mode on the TV. So basically 16:9 TV's have ways to deal with older letterbox material and will not look anywhere close to as bad as that picture.

-LeeBear

[Beautiful Alone]

This is the mode you would use to watch a Letterboxed movie. The gray lines you see in your picture will be gone so will the black bars from the top and bottom

would'nt that look stretch out ?

[LeeBear]

No it won't look stretched out. Basically what that mode does is take a normal 4:3 picture fills the screen horizontally (left and right) while maintaining the proper aspect ratio by cutting off the top and bottom of the original 4:3 picture. For a letterboxed movie that basically means the black bars are cut off. Of course you wouldn't watch normal TV in this mode because for instances if you were watching CNN you wouldn't be able to read the ticker at the bottom of the screen cause it won't be visible. Here's a crude attempt to show what I mean with a diagram, the "o" and "x" represent the picture

On a 4:3 TV you will get this:
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|oooooooooo|
|xxxxxxxxxx|
|xxxxxxxxxx|
|oooooooooo|
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On a 16:9 TV in zoom mode you will get this:
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|xxxxxxxxxx|
|xxxxxxxxxx|
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See how the "o" are gone but the "x" are still there undistorted? The "o's" could be the black bar from the letterbox or the ticker from CNN, or the scoreboard from a sporting event, it get's cut off.