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Post subject: Re: LD Letterbox vs. Anamorphic Widescreen DVD Posted: 01 Sep 2012, 20:00 |
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Are you saying you prefer non-enhanced since the picture would be closer to 1.85:1 instead of 1.78:1? I would think on a 2.35:1 movie there would be no difference in amount of picture displayed.
There are a few anamorphic enhanced LDs (called Squeeze LDs). I own Terminator 2 and the picture quality is noticeably better than any other disc I've watched.
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Post subject: Re: LD Letterbox vs. Anamorphic Widescreen DVD Posted: 04 Sep 2012, 19:53 |
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tomtastic wrote: With 1.85, it's not as much information lost, but 2.35 I'd definitely want 2.35 and not anamorphic. I think it's been at least 5 years since I've seen anything anamorphic and I don't miss it. It stretches the image very bad and crops the sides equally as bad. I don't quite understand that comment. A 2.35:1 movie should have the same picture dimensions whether it's enhanced for widescreen TVs or not. There shouldn't be any stretching or cropping. An anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 movie will still have the same black bars on the top and bottom as the one that's not enhanced.
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Post subject: Re: LD Letterbox vs. Anamorphic Widescreen DVD Posted: 04 Sep 2012, 21:07 |
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Ah learned something new. I stand corrected.
Seems odd to do it this way though. Wouldn't it be beneficial to simply adjust the height of the top and bottom black bars to achieve the correct aspect ratio without losing any picture at all?
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laserbite34
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Post subject: Re: LD Letterbox vs. Anamorphic Widescreen DVD Posted: 06 Sep 2012, 14:52 |
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admin wrote: Fight Club and T2 are Super35 only STAR WARS is true anamorphic scope. Portions of FC and T2 may vary from different pressings?
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rixrex
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Post subject: Re: LD Letterbox vs. Anamorphic Widescreen DVD Posted: 09 Sep 2012, 02:01 |
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ucfmatt wrote: Ah learned something new. I stand corrected.
Seems odd to do it this way though. Wouldn't it be beneficial to simply adjust the height of the top and bottom black bars to achieve the correct aspect ratio without losing any picture at all? Of course it would to those of us who are interested in the aesthetic aspects of films, which are not the commercial interests who sell product for home viewing nor the US general public. That same general public, which I will label as GP for short, practically had to be dragged into the world of widescreen TV thanks to pressure by LD fans who enjoy widescreen and the Japanese public who wanted widescreen HD asap. I mean, why else would TV manufacturers ever make a 4:3 HD television except to foist it on the US GP already used to 4:3 because they don't like black bars! I stated this before in another thread, the US GP thinks that if they see black bars anywhere on a TV screen, somehow they are not getting their money's worth. And the commercial interests want to fill that screen with image to keep the GP satisfied. The rallying cry of the ignorant TV viewer = No Black Bars!
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Post subject: Re: LD Letterbox vs. Anamorphic Widescreen DVD Posted: 24 Aug 2022, 18:26 |
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rixrex wrote: Not exactly. The anamorphed image stretch-out to 16:9 format is designed to allow 1.85 to fit 1.78 by slightly cropping all four sides. It would do this on 2.35 as well. The slight image loss amounts to .037 of the image on the sides. Anamorphic DVDs are designed to allow for more digital pixels to be used to store the image, it's the exact same concept as cinemascope with film ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScope). Whether or not a 1.85 film is changed to fit the 1.78 window, is a mastering decision, and definitely not an attribute of simply being an anamorphic dvd. Possibly you just need to adjust the overscan of your display device? Here's a frame from "the grinch" dvd, exported directly from the dvd using ffmpeg. it's a 1.85:1 anamorphic dvd, and has black bars on top and bottom, as it should.
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