Explain why my picture doesnt fit in my screen

james.miller said:
i noticed - you didnt actually answer anything in this thread.



and do they know why? not that it makes any difference, im sure you'd answer yes anyway....

dont get me wrong, its very easy to search and people should do so. but if all you can be bothered to do is insult the OP then dont bother replying. it doesnt make good reading for the rest of us or the OP.
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well said.
 
Raikiri said:
The irony. :rolleyes:
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lol. sure :)

loowi if you have any other questions you've probably worked out who's more likely to help you :) btu yes, try to make sure your first ports of call are google and the forum search. youll normally find the same replies, by the same people, making the same complaints about people not searching....but somewhere in there is the actual answer.

Your 16:9 wide screen display has an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. The movies that have an aspect ratio of higher than 1.78:1 will have black bars at the top/bottom. However, many displays have over scan which is a holdover to CRT based TVs so with over scan on many models a movie with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 appears to also fill the whole screen just like a 1.78:1 movie (rare).

If you look on the back of the movie cases for the two movies you watched, they will list the aspect ratio at probably either 2.35:1 or 2.40:1, which means the picture is wider than your display. to keep the picture from being distorted, you have black bars on these movies.

I recommend you get used to them. Much of the action movies use the wider 2.40:1 aspect ratio and more of the comedies use 1.85:1. Watching these wider movies with the black bars at the top/bottom means you are seeing the WHOLE movie and not chopping off the sides by zooming it and also degrading the PQ with the zoom.

Hope this helps!
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now thats a great reply. 2nd result on google for 'bluray aspect ratio'.
 
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Just get a bigger TV if the picture isn't big enough.

I guess you have never noticed that the film is 'wider' than the adverts in a cinema?
 
Wow just popped back after a couple of days and my orginal post has upset a few people hasnt it.

If asking a question that has been asked before clearly upsets you in such a manner you really should get out more.....on second thoughts no dont!...
I do wonder though, why not just click the back button and leave the thread unanswered, no but thats a silly thought isnt it your'd rather have your little pops at some-one over an internet to makes yourselfs feel better!

I may have asked a silly question to some of you, and yes I could have googled it instead, but half of these forums wouldnt exsist if every-one googled everything instead.

Now please, grow up some of you!
 
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To be honest the OP didn't come across very well in his following posts with attempts at sarcasm about cinemas not being letterbox (even though they are)
 
Loowi_ashley said:
O.k I have a Samsung 40" LCD HD TV (one with the red fading to black). I have several picture size settings, Just scan, 16:10, Zoom etc.
To fill my widescreen TV with a DVD/Blu-ray picture I need to have it set to Zoom, but this makes everyone look tall and thin. The best settings is 16:10 but this means I have Black lines top and bottom.

Is there any fix?
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Loowi_ashley said:
So every-one watches there films through a letter box?
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Loowi_ashley said:
O.k thankx
Cant wait for 2.40:1 LCDs......
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Loowi_ashley said:
Yes nearly every weekend, odeon, and showcase which have the biggest screens I have ever seen, no letter boxes, your point???
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The above sum it up pretty well

If you had bothered to type anything regarding aspect ratios into google you could have found it out then come here for a chat about it or if you wanted to know more. Or maybe there wouldn't be the need for this thread in the first place as you could have used the search button.

/simples.
 
What amazes me even more is the fact that im guessing Loowi that you had a normal CRT TV before your LCD? How on earth did you not notice that films had black bars before? Its not as if CRT's have magic technology that get rid of the bars, they are still there and will always be there.
 
You say it gets tiresome repling to the same posts, you dont get tired chipping in and slating though...

My point isnt that all of a sudden I have noticed these black lines on a film (I havent just had an eye transplant), my question was more to the point of why release dvds in a format that doesnt fit your TV (unless you have a panasonic jobbie).
 
I also think its down to the expectations you put on something when you 'convince' yourself to buy something, or the salesman does.
 
Loowi_ashley said:
my question was more to the point of why release dvds in a format that doesnt fit your TV (unless you have a panasonic jobbie).
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Because most people would rather see a film in the way the director originally intended, rather then chopped to fit a 16:9 screen.
 
Cinema's letterbox too, but they normally have adjustable black masks which come up and down to cover the top and bottom of the screen.

PS try watching a bluray widescreen movie on an old non widescreen TV... Now thats some SERIOUS letterboxing :P

16:9 is a compremise which is acceptable for 4:3 TV, 2.4:1 movies, 16:9 TV, and 1.78:1 movies too. The big word here is compremise. BTW, the wider the TV the harder it is to fit into a corner of a room, so positioning a 2.4:1 superwidescreen TV is quite a bit tougher, and it will have enormous sidebars if you want older TV shows on it.
 
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