different size widescreen?

[bladestorm]

This has bothered me for awhile so I decided to ask. How come the black bars on a widescreen televison show are so much thiner than say a widescreen dvd movie? Keep in mind this is based of a 4:3 ratio TV.

Thanks

[Grant_H]

There are 2 different ratios of widescreen, I don't remember the exact dimentions. I'm sue someone else here can give you more details, but go to:

www.widescreenmuseum.com

for some more basic info

[vhelp]

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Looking at widescreen sources, when viewed on a regular TV set:

- Regular TV - is a 4:3 aspect ratio (AR)
**** AR: 1.77:1 = 60 pixels off top/bottom ea (letterboxed - less)
**** AR: 1.85:1 = 56 pixels off top/bottom ea (letterboxed - more)
**** AR: 2.35:1 = 104 pixels off top/bottom ea (letterboxed - lot more)


Looking at widescreen sources, when viewed on a WS TV set:

- WideScreen TV - is a 16:9 aspect ratio (AR) **
**** AR: 1.77:1 = 0 pixels off top/bottom ea (fullscreen - no bars)
**** AR: 1.85:1 = some pixels off top/bottom ea (letterboxed - less)
**** AR: 2.35:1 = more pixels off top/bottom ea (letterboxed - more)

** Note, because I don't have a ws tv set, I couldn't come up w/ the pixel count
for each

From the Video Workstation of,
-vhelp 2066