why when i bought a widesreen tv, with widescreen dvd's the videos don't take up the whole screen? theres still some black space on the top and bottom. are there a bunch of setting you have to screw around with or something? could someone please explain this?
2006-08-05 18:50:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
aspect ratio, the ratio of the width to the height
broad cast TV 4:3
most movies 16:9 or 1.777777777777777:1(DVDs and hd TVs)
variations of movies 1.85:1 2.40:1 1.66:1 1.33:1
As you can see a wide screen movie with a 2.40:1 on a DVD would still have bars at the top and bottom, just not as pronounced as a 16:9 on a TV with 4:3
some movie theaters screens arent wide enough for a 2.40:1 movie so they just cut the sides off. When the put them on a DVD they put entire picture on so it leaves a little left at the top and bottom
2006-08-06 17:03:18 · answer #1 · answered by hogie0101 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all you have to agree that if you were playing that same DVD on your old 4X3 screen the black bars would be much larger than the ones on your new 16X9 formated TV. Now remember 'way back when', when you used to go to the movies, and you remember the screen was much wider in ratio than your new TV is, especially if it was filmed in Panavision. In fact you can play 5 different DVD movies and 3 of them may have different sized black bars. In the movie theaters many of them have curtains that they adjust to match the format of the film. When the TV manufacturers decided on 16X9 it was to better allow Hollywood and HDTV to coincide together. They didn't want it to ever cut off any part of the picture, so you still will have black bars, or you can stretch it out and have tall people or loose some of the sides. It's up to you.
2006-08-06 06:30:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well for one it depends on the aspect ratio of your DVDs. But you might check out your DVD players settings.
Go into the DVDs player set up menu, look for screen set up or size, make sure your settings is for widescreen and not 4:3, make sure it defaults to the widescreen setting. This might help with your problem
2006-08-07 18:39:56 · answer #3 · answered by coco2591 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is wide screen wide and it is the DVD not the TV...some DVDs have wide screen on one side and full screen on the other...but not many. With the wide screen you supposedly she wide shots (more of the background) than you do with the full screen.
2006-08-06 01:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by BritLdy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the " just like in the theatre" experience....another words = you get ripped off by the man
2006-08-06 01:55:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋