An Animorphic Question

[Jerm]

Now, please correct me if I am wrong, but animorphic widescreen movies are programmed to fit you 16:9 TV screen right?
So do all ratios fit? 1:88? 2:35? stuff in between? And what about DVDs that are only full screen? How do those fit on a 16:9 set?
And what about movies that are widescreen but not animorphic?
Right now, I have a 27" Trinitron, and I never have to worry about animorphic, because all of my movies are letterboxed.

[1138]

Anamorphic has only one level. It makes the black bars on a 1.85 movie so small that they're usually lost to overscan anyway.

With a 2.35 movie, there's still black bars on a 16x9 TV. But at least you still get some extra resolution thanks to the anamorphic encoding.

As for 4x3 material, on a 16x9 TV it will have black bars on the sides to fit it into the TV.

Non-anmorphic widscreen is the worst because it has the black bars on the top and bottom plus the black bars on the sides because it's a letterboxed image fit into a 4x3 space.

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[Jerm]

1138, thanks

[med]

Is there any way to "blow up" or zoom in to a letterboxed feed, so you don't get black bars on all four sides, at the expense of a clean image?
Cause I'd imagine that the people who hate widescreen on their 4:3 boxes would absolutely loathe having bars on all sides, especially after paying all that money so they would not have to be dealing with as much black bars. Then again, how many people are there out there that enjoy movies/dvd/home theatre enough to purchase a t.v. that expensive who prefer pan&scan?
(except of course the people who buy 16:9 tvs for HDTV broadcasts)
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[Dr. Evil]

Is there any way to "blow up" or zoom in to a letterboxed feed, so you don't get black bars on all four sides, at the expense of a clean image?

Yes - it's called scaling. You can get do this with a scaling player like the Panasonic RP91, or with an HTPC. I've tried both; best results seem to be with the latter, although it's not quite as convenient.

RD

[med]

Dr. Evil: Does it still have a decent image, or does it become pixelated and/or grainy or have bad side effects to the point where it is bothersome or...shudder VHS-like?

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[Dr. Evil]

Dr. Evil: Does it still have a decent image, or does it become pixelated and/or grainy or have bad side effects to the point where it is bothersome or...shudder VHS-like?

Apart from poorly-mastered discs, the image quality is so good you'd be hard-pressed to tell it apart from the real thing. Some time ago, I played the old BV title Quiz Show, and couldn't help but marvel at the film-like quality of the image!

FYI Radeon LE cards can be had for under $80 delivered.

RD

[android]

A really good LBX transfer is pretty bearable in zoom mode on my 57" 16x9 TV. Examples that come to mind are Mary Poppins, English Patient and Silence of the Lambs.
I wouldn't say that it is indistiguisable from a anamorphic transfer though.

My TV has gray side bars, so I use black foamcore mattes for watching academy format movies.

Anamorphic 1.66:1, 1.78:1 and 1.85:1 fill the screen due to overscan which is less than 5% on my set.

Higher ratio formats have slight bars top and bottom which I don't mind at all.

16:9 P&S (ala HBO) is surely just as evil as 4:3 P&S.