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Vizio bringing 21:9 Cinema HDTV to CES with 2560 x 1080 resolution

What content is there to even take advantage of it though? Sure pc games and stuff could benifit from the resolution but movie wise doesnt seem like theres much of anything
 
velillen said:
What content is there to even take advantage of it though? Sure pc games and stuff could benifit from the resolution but movie wise doesnt seem like theres much of anything
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if the scaler is top notch its possible that movies would look amazing on it. no black bars. or a very very small one
 
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Cstefan said:
I smell a $20k+ tv there!
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you are missing a 0

the 103" pany plasma costs like 80k and their 150 is like 250k

OLEDs are STUPID expensive sonys 11 inch OLED TV costs like 1800, a 155 inch one is gonna cost hundreds of thousands
 
alkemyst said:
It's going to trade lack of black bars on some movies for black bars on other content.
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My next projector / screen setup will be 21:9. I use it mainly for movies and some sports, so 95% of the time, I will be watching 21:9 material.

For everyday TV use, I'll stick to 16:9 until the majority of the shows change to 21:9.
 
only thing it does is keep the resoltuion for narrower aspect ratio, it is scaling for 2.35.
makes all your regular tv pillar bar, and pillar bar is more visually annoying than regular letterboxing.
projection can do this easier since it can readily attain adequate image height easily, not so much for flat panel.
 
cool and all, but this response from a CNet editor has me worried:

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-32254_1-20027127-283.html
Editor's take: It's a cool idea, and I'm always intrigued by something different, but when I asked Vizio's reps how the TVs handled CinemaScope Blu-rays I was disappointed by the answer. Since such movies are formatted to a 1,920x1,080 resolution, some of the 1080 lines actually consist of black bars. That means that the 21:9 TVs have to zoom the image to eliminate those bars, scaling the image and preventing the 1:1 pixel matching achieved by actual 1,920x1,080 HDTVs. Still, I'm curious to see the sets in action, and I doubt most viewers will notice the scaling. On the other hand, they might notice the need to zoom/stretch/crop (or deal with black bars to either side) when watching normal 16:9 movies, TV shows, and sporting events.
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there will always be black bars here and scaling there. no film producer will ever agree what format they think their movie should be in, and thats the way it should be.

i applaud this extra-wide tv. in larger sizes like that, it would be absolutely awesome for movies right now. and you can bet local broadcast stations will start offering multiple resolution formats for their sporting events- they have it set up with the digital television transition... it wouldnt be that hard to add more resolutions.

could you imagine a resolution for a football game that envelopes the whole field at once? if you had say a 200" tv that covers your entire livingroom wall, it would be absolutely incredible. the broadcast would just show a stationary camera for most of the live action... it would be like having a box seat to the game in your house.
 
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wirednuts said:
there will always be black bars here and scaling there. no film producer will ever agree what format they think their movie should be in, and thats the way it should be.
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Yeah, standards are for squares. If you don't appreciate an indie film it's because you're a square not because the ultrawide format looked like crap on a standard format screen. Screw the squares.
 
Nice, I would definitely be interested in getting a tv like this exclusively for movies. Looking through my blu-rays, I don't have a single movie that is actually 1920x1080.
 
RockinZ28 said:
Nice, I would definitely be interested in getting a tv like this exclusively for movies. Looking through my blu-rays, I don't have a single movie that is actually 1920x1080.
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makes no sense, cuz it is unlikely it costs less than a 16:9 equivalent, and would be worse at any other aspect ratio than 2.35.

wirednuts said:
there will always be black bars here and scaling there. no film producer will ever agree what format they think their movie should be in, and thats the way it should be.

i applaud this extra-wide tv. in larger sizes like that, it would be absolutely awesome for movies right now. and you can bet local broadcast stations will start offering multiple resolution formats for their sporting events- they have it set up with the digital television transition... it wouldnt be that hard to add more resolutions.

could you imagine a resolution for a football game that envelopes the whole field at once? if you had say a 200" tv that covers your entire livingroom wall, it would be absolutely incredible. the broadcast would just show a stationary camera for most of the live action... it would be like having a box seat to the game in your house.
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broadcast isn't going to change, especially for a tiny niche market like this. bandwidth is already precious and skimped on, they will not broadcast let alone get 2.35 cameras just to send on a new channel. never mind cable/broadcast is already under financial strain, they aren't going to add the overhead of this kind of thing to their books. So basically you buy this tv and ruin all your other viewing for the sake of 2.35...kind of bizarre really.

this is the kind of thing that gets returned. it gets home,a ll your 16:9 hdtv broadcasts and narrower aspect films have huge pillar boxes and look tiny, and it goes right back.
 
0roo0roo said:
makes no sense, cuz it is unlikely it costs less than a 16:9 equivalent, and would be worse at any other aspect ratio than 2.35.
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That's fine with me honestly. I have 3 hdtv's 50"+, and almost all my movies are 2.35, and a few are wider, which I'd guess the tv will just have small black bars top and bottom.

I've been wanting a tv that does borderless, or very close to it for a while actually. Hopefully if it sells decently, Panasonic might make a plasma version, cause I wouldn't buy an LCD for watching movies.
 
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