OT: go-default screens.

[Kurt Granroth]

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.