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1:33-1 movies on BD

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Tom Brennan

It seems that many HDTVs automatically go into the widescreen mode when the HDMI input is used. So what happens if you watch a 1:33-1 BD movie like The Adventures of Robin Hood? Is it stretched out to fit the widescreen? Or is the disc "reverse letterboxed" to maintain it's proper aspect ratio on a 16-9 TV?

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My 16:9-native-aspect-ratio projector, an Epson 1080UB... - jeffreybehr 13:23:24 11/26/08 (1)
...requires no changing of anything to project in the correct AR. Panavision-, 1.85-, and 1.78-AR movies all fill the image width, and 1.33s definitely have vertical black bars left and right.

BTW I recently bought a Panavision-AR screen that's 96" wide instead of my 16:9 screen's 80" width. When projecting high-AR movies, I manually zoom the lens to fill the width. Since my projector is in a bookcase directly behind the couch, it's quite easy to do that.

Viewing angle is now 42.4 degrees at my 10-1/4' viewing distance, about as wide as I'd like to look at; pixels are NOT visible at that angle, and the wide-ratio movies look excellent.
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- Pics of the 2 screens - jeffreybehr 09:21:12 11/27/08 (0)
  The 2.35...
  
  ...versus the the 1.78.
  
  These are both Severtson Legacys.
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  - http://severtsonscreens.com/pdf/Legacy%20Screen%20Brochure.pdf (Open in New Window)
RE: 1:33-1 movies on BD - David Aiken 12:24:22 11/26/08 (0)
I have to manually change my TV's aspect ratio for the incoming signal with BD material in 4:3 but so far that's all been extras and I don't have a movie in 4:3 on BD yet. The picture gets stretched if I don't change the TV setting. Ditto for DVDs using the PS3.

David Aiken

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