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 <
nathan@paysonlinux.org> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The horizontal space is not 780 lines but 768
>>
>>
>> On 2/26/10, Nathan England <nathan@paysonlinux.org> 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
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