I AM LEGEND in a different aspect ratio?
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I AM LEGEND in a different aspect ratio?
Did anyone get the blu ray collector's edition of I AM LEGEND? I wanted to know if it's in full anamorphic wide screen or still in letter box.
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Having "Black Bars" only means a movie was filmed in an aspect ratio greater than 1.78:1.
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It's in fullscreen only with burned Spanish subtitles and forced trailers, FBI logo and Anti-piracy ad at the beginning. It's also a flipper disc that comes in a snapcase packaging.
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It used to. Now that 16:9 TVs are common the nomenclature has changed a bit. "Widescreen" is assumed to mean enhanced (or anamorphic) standard definition DVDs that fill the entire width of the (16:9) television or Blu-rays that do the same (they don't need to be enhanced), regardless of whether it still has black bars. "Letterboxed" now refers to programming that is 4:3 but with black bars to simulate widescreen. On a regular 4:3 television it will have black bars on top and bottom (as usual). On a 16:9 television it will be centered on the screen like a regular 4:3 program (like your average TV show), but will also still have black bars.
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So, let's be a little more understanding of the situation. If anything, you should be pointing blame to your movie studios and the BDA for not getting the message across in stores across the US. And you should be blaming studios most of all because they're the stupid fucks who keep on releasing fullscreen editions. Who's the 'tard.
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We J169P folk should pay attention to the misinformation coming from studios as well.
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Actually, Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs are enhanced for 16:9/anamorphic. You can watch them on a 4x3 television and the players will downcovert the 16x9 image to a 4x3 compatible signal.
Video games are the same way. They are enhanced for 16x9 but can downvert to 4x3 if needed.
I know this because I had a 27" television and was watching HD DVDs on my 360 before the 40" Sony HDTV I got.
Video games are the same way. They are enhanced for 16x9 but can downvert to 4x3 if needed.
I know this because I had a 27" television and was watching HD DVDs on my 360 before the 40" Sony HDTV I got.
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Also, you didn't watch anything in 1080p on your old TV. The source disc may have been 1080p, but that 1080p signal was sent over standard cables, producing a 480p image. There is no 'downverting' or whatever you want to call it, you watched a NATIVE 16:9 picture, and will not do anything to fill that 4x3 screen except for a zoom feature or something of the sort on your DVD player.
He wasn't arguing that you could watch the discs, just that BD's do not 'downvert' or enhance or anything of that sort.
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But a 16x9 image in a 4x3 would be distorted, no?
I remember a few DVD imports that were 16:9 natively and unless your 4x3 TV could squeeze, the image you got a distorted picture.
Wouldn't this be the case with Blu-ray and HD DVD? Warner even says 16x9 in the spec box for the high def titles.
I remember a few DVD imports that were 16:9 natively and unless your 4x3 TV could squeeze, the image you got a distorted picture.
Wouldn't this be the case with Blu-ray and HD DVD? Warner even says 16x9 in the spec box for the high def titles.
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Wouldn't this be the case with Blu-ray and HD DVD? Warner even says 16x9 in the spec box for the high def titles.
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But a 16x9 image in a 4x3 would be distorted, no?
I remember a few DVD imports that were 16:9 natively and unless your 4x3 TV could squeeze, the image you got a distorted picture.
Wouldn't this be the case with Blu-ray and HD DVD? Warner even says 16x9 in the spec box for the high def titles.
I remember a few DVD imports that were 16:9 natively and unless your 4x3 TV could squeeze, the image you got a distorted picture.
Wouldn't this be the case with Blu-ray and HD DVD? Warner even says 16x9 in the spec box for the high def titles.
Whereas Blu-Ray is ENCODED as 16x9, and the player does nothing but present the image and sound as-is. Hence, both of those are much better on BD because they are not compressed as much and are free from enhancements to make the picture 'appear' better on your TV.
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As far as I know, stuff can be fullscreen or widescreen on blu-ray. It just depends on the source, as if I burn a fullscreen video to a blu-ray disc, it isn't magically transformed to widescreen.
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Careful. Such terminology is ambiguous. Full screen on a 16:9 TV is a different animal than full screen on a 4:3 set. If you are talking about a 4:3 image on Blu-ray, they don't need to encode bars on the sides. They encode the program as 4:3 and it is displayed as such.
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Careful. Such terminology is ambiguous. Full screen on a 16:9 TV is a different animal than full screen on a 4:3 set. If you are talking about a 4:3 image on Blu-ray, they don't need to encode bars on the sides. They encode the program as 4:3 and it is displayed as such.
I think you meant to say DVD there. Since Blu-ray is natively 16:9, any 4:3 content must be encoded with pillarbox bars on the sides.