Altered aspect ratio for Widescreen TVs (NO!)
01-23-06, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by awmurray
I didn't know this was part of the DVD spec. It seems like a good solution but the issue isn't quite as simple as defining the P&S region. In some cases, the image has to be squeezed to fit it on the screen. Here is the perfect example from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in which the Marauder's Map had to literally be squashed because both sides of the widescreen had to be shown at the same time or the scene wouldn't make any sense at all.[/url]
01-23-06, 02:44 PM
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Check out the original 1988 transfer of Die Hard for VHS ( Not sure about LD ). It looked as if the 2.35 image was cropped for 1.85 and then sqweezed together to fit 1.33. Pretty strange transfer as everyone looked really tall and thin, not to mention the intended light glares looking more of an oval shape.
Sqweezing used to be a normal practice back in VHS days with older films filmed in widescreen. Mostly during credit seqences, where instead of using letterboxing to show the entire scenes, they would just swqeeze it.
Sqweezing used to be a normal practice back in VHS days with older films filmed in widescreen. Mostly during credit seqences, where instead of using letterboxing to show the entire scenes, they would just swqeeze it.
01-23-06, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Peep
What you people really should be bitching about is that no studios are taking advantage of the DVD specifications that allow for coding of "on the fly" P&S which would let a studio encode a movie once (in WS with P&S tags) and make most everybody happy.
Studios used to put both WS and 4:3 versions on one DVD, but space considerations due to demand for increased video quality and more extras have eliminated that practice for most movies over 90 minutes.
01-23-06, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by awmurray
I didn't know this was part of the DVD spec. It seems like a good solution but the issue isn't quite as simple as defining the P&S region. In some cases, the image has to be squeezed to fit it on the screen.
