HDTV / DVD's question

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

If you are playing a 2.35-1 aspect ration DVD on a 16:9 aspect HDTV, will the film fill up the screen if played on a normal DVD player? They won't on my computer, but I haven't tried it on my DVD player yet. I have some DVD's that say they're 16:9, and they fill up the screen when played through my computer, but the 2:35-1 DVD's won't. I'm wondering if I should make sure when I buy any DVD's to verify they're 16:9 so they'll take up the whole screen when I play them through my DVD player. If the 2:35-1 DVD's won't do that, I need to make sure I don't buy those versions.

[DarkJedi]

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I can help ya, Asono. :D


If indeed your television is set to 16:9 ratio settings, a 2.25-1(more standardly known as 2.39 on the back on dvds will NOT fill your HDTV screen up. If you do try to fill up the screen, the picture will feel a tad stretched and it will not be totally accurate in those settings for a 16:9 tv. It's better to let it play in its 2.39 settings and have the black bars at the top of the bottom.

1.85 dvds(a common aspect ratio due to the lesser costs of film from the studios is now used alot) will fill your 16:9 HDTV, Asono. 1.85 is commonly referred as "flat" aspect film and it fits your tv perfectly.

You really shouldn't let this avoid you buying 2.35-1 films though, man. After all, all 35mm films shot before 1970 used 2.35-1 ratio...and there are alot of great movies obviously before that time period. :)

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

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I can help ya, Asono. :D


If indeed your television is set to 16:9 ratio settings, a 2.25-1(more standardly known as 2.39 on the back on dvds will NOT fill your HDTV screen up. If you do try to fill up the screen, the picture will feel a tad stretched and it will not be totally accurate in those settings for a 16:9 tv. It's better to let it play in its 2.39 settings and have the black bars at the top of the bottom.

1.85 dvds(a common aspect ratio due to the lesser costs of film from the studios is now used alot) will fill your 16:9 HDTV, Asono. 1.85 is commonly referred as "flat" aspect film and it fits your tv perfectly.

You really shouldn't let this avoid you buying 2.35-1 films though, man. After all, all 35mm films shot before 1970 used 2.35-1 ratio...and there are alot of great movies obviously before that time period. :)

Well, guess what. My TV has a function that creates full screen images of other aspect ratio or analog DVD's. I'm checking it out now, to see how it does . . .

[DarkJedi]

Yep, same function on mine. You can try this feature and click on Zoom to Full Screen but for certain ratios, it will fill the screen but the visual performance will still be stretched.

Or did you mean "full" screen as in 4:3 aspect ratio?

[Jakester]

If the DVD is "anamorphic" or "enhanced for 16:9 TVs," this will help minimize the black bars at the top and bottom. You also need to have your DVD player connected via component input and set to progressive-scan.

When widescreen movies are shown on a standard TV, you get some loss of horizontal resolution. If you watch an anamorphic movie on a 16:9 TV, you don't lose any of that resolution, but you will still see black bars if the aspect ratio is anything above 1.85:1.

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

If the DVD is "anamorphic" or "enhanced for 16:9 TVs," this will help minimize the black bars at the top and bottom. You also need to have your DVD player connected via component input and set to progressive-scan.

When widescreen movies are shown on a standard TV, you get some loss of horizontal resolution. If you watch an anamorphic movie on a 16:9 TV, you don't lose any of that resolution, but you will still see black bars if the aspect ratio is anything above 1.85:1.

Thank you. I tried 2 movies, one at 2.35:1 and one at 1.85:1. The TV menu for aspect ratio offers 3 options: 1:1 (that is how it is normally set), something called "aspect" without any numbers associated with it, and "full screen." The movies wouldn't change properly, but one of my games did change to "full screen" when I selected that option from the TV menu.

Anyway, all of this is really moot until I hook the DVD player up to this TV and see what happens in that environment. Acting as a monitor for a computer isn't really the "nominal" operational standard function of the TV.