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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I missed an option - Zoom to fill every square inch | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Concerning those who stretch the AR, I've been told several times that they spent $$$ for this widescreen TV and by gods they're going to utilize it fully! (or something like that).
I have three views on the AR stretching: First - do you really need to with a 55" TV? The 4:3 picture is still going to be huge. Second - I want to see everything that was intended to be viewed. Third - I refuse to watch widescreen movies in 4:3 format or zoom a 4:3 to fill a widescreen. I can't have "data loss"! I also can't have a distorted image.
My heart fell when I picked up the Babylon 5 TV series and with much anticipation put the first DVD in only to see they zoomed the 4:3 image to fit widescreen format. I was so disappointed! I was a little relieved to see that JMS always intended it to be widescreen but the technology wasn't available (or unfeasible) - so he framed the shots for future widescreen in mind. | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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| Registered: July 16, 2010 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 527 |
| | Posted: | | | | I’m a fairly laid back person, but anyone who distort or stretches the picture in any way should be sent, to, prison... for life.  Those black bars are an integral part of the enjoyment! I paid for that space and I want it filled with nothingness, as nature intended. Distorting the image is genetic engineering for DVDs. I don’t like it in my food and I’m not putting up with it on a TV screen.  I relish the opportunity to watch a good, non-anamorphic DVD.  If I wanted to see blurry fat people waddling about on telly I'd get someone to video me. | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... | | | | Last edited: by SpikyCactus |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm allergic to deformed images due to stretching. I guess the actors and actresses are very happy when you add 10 pounds to their faces though.  NOT. | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
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| Registered: February 4, 2012 |  Posts: 5 |
| | Posted: | | | | Option 2. And oh boy, how I hate when the TV is set on automatic and it continuously shifts around |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Zoom to make it fit, which sucks as it doesn't work through HDMI inputs on my set (I get zoom 1 but need zoom 2 which it doesn't offer), but works fine with component input. So all my non-ananmorphic WS dvds go to the old region free dvd player, everything else gets upconverted in he BD playa. I can't stand squished images and will turn my tv to 4:3 to watch even the shortest extra features that show up squished. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have a pre-plasma/LCD/LED rear-projection 55" 1080 TV. Always watched everything in original aspect ratio... black bars across the top, black pillars on the sides, whatever. I watch enough hi-def stuff to not worry about burn in.
Then my youngest watched a five-day weekend of 4:3 sitcom reruns. like 24 hours a day for five days!
Major stripes highly noticeable whenever a light/white screen went full width. It took nearly a year of watching everything in widescreen, even doing the horrible stretch on everything, to lessen the effect of her 4:3 marathon.
So I watch my older films, TV shows on my 27" LCD TV, and use the 55" for widescreen stuff only now. The LCD seems to have no burn-in problems... at least in comparison to the rear projection one. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Try displaying a white image covering the entire screen for a few hours to see if it helps with the burn in on that projection screen. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's the reason I still have a regular DVD player below my BR player.
Cos when I'm playing old 4:3 shows on the BR player the sidebars are grey and not black. It's very distracting. On the good old DVD player they are black as it should be.
Of course OAR all the way. At least of the given material. If the presented material is not the original theatrical OAR I usually wouldn't know or notice. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
Cos when I'm playing old 4:3 shows on the BR player the sidebars are grey and not black. It's very distracting. On the good old DVD player they are black as it should be. That's odd. When playing an OAR 4:3 DVD or Blu-ray with my Blu-ray player the sidebars are always black. I don't think it's your Blu-ray player that's doing this. I'm pretty sure it's a setting in your HDTV. My HDTV has 5 Aspect settings: Full, H-Fill, Just, 4:3 and Zoom. In the menu settings on my HDTV for Picture there is a setting for Aspect Adjustments and it is always set to full. When playing OAR 4:3 source material the sidebars are always black. Now, if I change the Aspect to 4:3 then the sidebars change to grey. You might want to check the settings on your HDTV to see if there is something similar. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection | | | | Last edited: by Bad Father |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've had TV's that you could set the color of the sidebars to either gray or black via the menus. |
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