what happens with 1.66:1 AR DVD's on a widescreen TV?
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what happens with 1.66:1 AR DVD's on a widescreen TV?
Widescreen TV's are 16x9 ratio which comes out to about 1.77:1 AR. right?
So if you get a DVD title that's 1.66:1, does it fill the screen and crop the top and bottom? Or do you see it at 1.66:1 with black verticle bars on the sides?
Can 1.66:1 movies on DVD use the anamorphic process?
So if you get a DVD title that's 1.66:1, does it fill the screen and crop the top and bottom? Or do you see it at 1.66:1 with black verticle bars on the sides?
Can 1.66:1 movies on DVD use the anamorphic process?
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When a 1.66:1 movie is anamorphically encoded, it gets windowboxed inside a 16:9 frame, with thin black bars on the left and right. Depending on the size of the TV's overscan, these might not even be visible on all TVs. The result is that the movie appears to be 16:9 on both 16:9 and 4:3 displays. I can think of two DVDs I have like this - Rocky Horror Picture Show and the R2 DVD of Sailor Moon R: The Movie.
However, a lot of 1.66:1 movies (eg. A Clockwork Orange) are encoded non-anamorphically. On a 16:9 display you have to pick between windowboxing them like a 4:3 picture and thereby having black space on all four sides, or zooming in and cutting off a little bit of the picture at the top and bottom.
However, a lot of 1.66:1 movies (eg. A Clockwork Orange) are encoded non-anamorphically. On a 16:9 display you have to pick between windowboxing them like a 4:3 picture and thereby having black space on all four sides, or zooming in and cutting off a little bit of the picture at the top and bottom.
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Originally Posted by digiboy
....Can 1.66:1 movies on DVD use the anamorphic process?
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Theoretically, if an image is greater than 1.54:1 aspect ratio then encoding it as
as 16:9 format DVD will give greater resolution than a letterboxed 4:3 DVD but it would have to be a pillar boxed 16:9 DVD if aspect ratio is less than 1.78:1. If the aspect ratio is less than 1.54:1 , 16:9 anamorphic encoding makes no sense at all as the image would have LESS resolution than than a letterboxed 4:3 DVD.
as 16:9 format DVD will give greater resolution than a letterboxed 4:3 DVD but it would have to be a pillar boxed 16:9 DVD if aspect ratio is less than 1.78:1. If the aspect ratio is less than 1.54:1 , 16:9 anamorphic encoding makes no sense at all as the image would have LESS resolution than than a letterboxed 4:3 DVD.
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If the aspect ratio is less than 1.54:1 , 16:9 anamorphic encoding makes no sense at all as the image would have LESS resolution than than a letterboxed 4:3 DVD.
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However, a lot of 1.66:1 movies (eg. A Clockwork Orange) are encoded non-anamorphically.
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Originally Posted by DavidH
Clockwork Orange not being anamorphic is a travesty! I can't believe they F'd this one up.
Here's what the remastered DVD looks like:
Here's what the DVD looks like when you enlarge it as if it were 16x9:
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Originally Posted by DavidH
Clockwork Orange not being anamorphic is a travesty! I can't believe they F'd this one up.
I almost wonder if maybe they didn't understand that anamorphic for DVD transfers is completely different from anamorphic when it comes to camera lenses.
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Originally Posted by supersonicx
Is there a way that you can make A Clockwork Orange this on a 16x9?
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Just curious...
I know there's apparently a "zoom" feature..
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Just curious...
I know there's apparently a "zoom" feature..
I made the screenshot entirely in Photoshop by taking the 4x3 remastered DVD and simply enlarging it to fit the 16x9 frame. The source images (uncompressed bitmap) were captured at 1024x768 resolution.
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almost wonder if maybe they didn't understand that anamorphic for DVD transfers is completely different from anamorphic when it comes to camera lenses.