OT: go-default screens.

[Shawn Dowler]

This page has a lot of information about letterboxing and aspect ratios:
http://widescreen.org/widescreen.shtml

Start out watching the animation of the television then click around
on the site; there is a lot of material buried there.

Shawn Dowler
Information Designer
shawn.dowler at gmail.com
http://walkingtowel.org



On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 19:52, Kurt Granroth
<kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/10 7:39 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>> I recently bought a so called hi-def tv screen and despite its 1360,768
>> 780p resolution my movies still have the black borders! What gives? I
>> thought having a hi-def wide screen would fix the black borders issue.
>> If I hook up a hdmi connection to a new dvd player, is it still going to
>> have the annoying black borders? Funny when we were all full screen we
>> wanted to be widescreen, now we are widescreen and we want to have a
>> fullscreen!
>
> Ah, but "wide screen" is all in the eye of the beholder.  HDTVs are
> called wide screen because they have a 16:9 aspect ratio as compared to
> the 4:3 aspect ratio of previous screens.  But 16:9 isn't the only wide
> aspect ratios out there.  In fact, pretty much all movies are shot in
> 1.85:1 or 2.39:1.  That's why you still have the black bars, even on
> your HDTV -- they may be wider than your older TV but they still aren't
> as wide as a movie screen.
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