what he said. :-) On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Shawn Dowler wrote: > Assuming you don't also have vertical black bars on the left and the > right, then it is because your TV has an aspect ratio of 16:9 (also > called 1.78:1) and most movies are filmed at even wider aspect ratios > (1.85:1 or 2.35:1 are both very common) so there are still black bars > on the top and the bottom because the movie is wider than your HDTV. > This is normal. > > http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/image-files/ivideo-formats.gif > > Anything wider than 1.78:1 will have black bars on the top and the bottom. > Anything narrower than 1.78:1 will have black bars on the left and the > right. The only ways around this are either stretching (yuck!) and > cropping (eww!). > > Shawn Dowler > Information Designer > shawn.dowler@gmail.com > http://walkingtowel.org > > > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 19:48, Nathan England wrote: >> The subject of this thread is mis-leading as my HTC Hero spell correction >> changed my hi-def subject to go-default, go figure.. ha ha >> Anyway, I realize the difference between widescreen and fullscreen displays. >> I have long prefered the widescreen or letterbox formats to a regular >> fullscreen as I like to see the whole image, even if it is a little smaller >> on my screen. >> What I am wondering about is why all the movies I have that are wide screen >> format movies still have horizontal bars (top and bottom) on my new wide >> screen 780p lcd hdtv. I thought when I switched from my computer with a >> non-hidef resolution to a real tv with the proper resolution for widescreen >> that those lines would go away and it would fill my screen. >> Nathan >> >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Stephen wrote: >>> >>> The horizontal space is not 780 lines but 768 >>> >>> >>> On 2/26/10, 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! >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from my mobile device >>> >>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >>> >>> Stephen >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss