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Anonymous | what's better for anamorphic widescreen formats? 1.85:1 or 2.39:1, i've even seen 1.78:1 |
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Silver Member Username: SamijubalPost Number: 912 Registered: Jul-04 | No such thing as better, it just depends on the camera the director used. There is also 1.66:1. Some stuff being pawned off as widescreen is even streched 1.33:1. |
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New member Username: JdsPost Number: 3 Registered: Mar-05 | Looking for some help in understanding widescreen formats. I purchased a Mitsubihi WD-52525 DLP set in November and a Yamaha DVS-5750 progressive scan DVD player. I have quite a few DVD's I have bought over the years, always in Widescreen format. My experience is now I am not sure what I will see on the screen. Many DVD's fill the 16:9 screen (usually with black bars top and bottom)and look perfectly proportioned. Others look to be a 4:3 widescreen format, stretched to fit 16:9 and this is in the TV's Standard Setting. Using the TV's "Expand" format usually fixes the proportions, but degrades the sharpness somewhat. I am probably also losing a bit of the picture. I can find no way to determine from the DVD box, what I will see on the screen. I have DVD's that I have had for years that look perfect and ones I have just bought that look like streched 4:3's. I just purchased the recently released Memphis Belle DVD and it appears to be a stretched 4:3. Is there anyway to look at the packing and know what I am buying? Could this be a problem with the TV or my DVD player? If the issue is the DVD, manufactures should be made to label the product as such. |
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Silver Member Username: DmwileyPost Number: 504 Registered: Feb-05 | Every DVD I have ever purchased includes the film aspect ratio on the box-sometimes in very small print. Give me some examples of ones that do not include that information. |
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Silver Member Username: SamijubalPost Number: 935 Registered: Jul-04 | There are alot of DVDs that don't give aspect ratio. Most Paramount DVDs don't, Warner and Fox also don't put it on some of theirs, along with other companies. Look at Amazon or someplace like that is the best way I've found to get the aspect ratio, they aren't always right, but they usually are. MGM made a few hundred DVDs that they sold as widescreen that were actually cropped 4:3 versions. They ended up getting sued over it and will now replace them if you send the disc to them, I guess that still stands since Sony bought them out. |
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New member Username: JdsPost Number: 4 Registered: Mar-05 | I agree with David, I looked at quite a few of my DVD's last night and most did not have the aspect ratio. I believe the problem I sited above related to stretched 4:3 Widescreen on my 16:9 TV may be whether the DVD is anamorphic or not. Are the terms "Anamorphic" and "Enhance for 16:9 Widescreen" essential the same? DVD manaufactures really ought to be required to include this information on the box. Of course, I would be less inclined to purchase a non-anamorpnic DVD now that I have a 16:9 widescreen TV. From what I have seen, even anamorphic DVD's are not always labled as such. Is my thinking correct on this? |
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Silver Member Username: SamijubalPost Number: 945 Registered: Jul-04 | This can explain it better than I can. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/ |