Here's a great explanation with an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4oLdlVnNHU
Shawn Dowler
Information Designer
shawn.dowler@gmail.com
http://walkingtowel.org
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 22:05, Shawn Dowler <
shawn.dowler@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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@gmail.com
> http://walkingtowel.org
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 19:52, Kurt Granroth
> <kurt+plug-discuss@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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