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HDTV question

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Steve325

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I am completely misunderstanding this. I would assume with buying a wide screen HDTV that wide screen DVD's would fit 100% on my screen, but they are STILL cropped at the top and bottom. Is there a way to fix this? What is the point of it? I just got the HD-DVD player for my 360 and HD King Kong is the same exact way. All my settings are set for HD 1080i wide screen...

any ideas?
 
Wiki, google, or AVSForum.com can provide details but the short answer is that there is more than one aspect ratio used to film movies, 16:9 is only one of several.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Wiki, google, or AVSForum.com can provide details but the short answer is that there is more than one aspect ratio used to film movies, 16:9 is only one of several.
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I have to :laugh: a bit every time I see this question get asked. 😛

- M4H
 
They are not cropped, the screen is just narrower than the source. Standard home displays have a 1.78:1 aspect ratio which is a compromise betwixt 1:33:1 and 2.39:1. There are no 1.78:1 (16x9) film sources, only video; so no unmolested film content will utilize the whole display area.

For broadcast, sources are commonly cropped to fill or in rare cases may actually expand upon the theatrical format by opening up the frame or this may variously be done in combination with cropping... all in an effort to fill so-called wide screen TV's and thus sassify such expectations, however misguided 😛
 
There are no 1.78:1 (16x9) film sources, only video; so no unmolested film content will utilize the whole display area.
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16:9 film stock may not be that common these days, but theatrical films that were recorded digitally (or are CG) might 'natively' be in a 16:9 AR. Also, I believe some older film formats were 16:9 (and other ratios, including 4:3, were also in use in Hollywood at various points.)

And then you have really wacky cases, like the Harry Potter films. If you look at differences in the widescreen (16:9) and 4:3 DVDs, apparently it they were 'filmed' digitally in something like 2:1 and then cropped differently for both the 4:3 and 16:9 cuts -- the 4:3 is not pan-and-scan, but actually a different set of cuts from the digital negatives!

Some info (I can't find the site that discusses the Harry Potter movies right now): http://www.rexer.com/cine/oar.htm

But yes, the issue you are having with King Kong is that the film is 2.35:1 and your TV is 16:9 (1.78:1). If you were watching it on a 4:3 screen, the black bars would be much bigger.
 
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