[opendtv] Re: 70th Anniversary Blu-ray and standard DVDs of the Wizard of Oz

  • From: "Stessen, Jeroen" <jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:02:19 +0200

Hello,

Cliff Benham wrote:
> In no case did selecting all the possible combinations of these various
> settings produce a 4:3 image on the 4:3 displays or an unsqueezed 4:3
> image on the 16:9 set.
>
> This is a 4:3 film with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
>
> The image always displayed 1:1 or square on the 4:3 monitors and
> squeezed on the 16:9 set.


What did you expect ? HDTV signals are always 16:9, and the output
from the BluRay player is HDTV. So a 4:3 film will always be padded
with two side pillars to a 16:9 signal. No wonder that you are always
seeing a pillarbox. If this were a "Platinum" edition, like Pinocchio,
the side bars would have been filled up with nice colored curtains.

HDTV 4:3 does not exist as a signal format. Neither does 21:9.  :-(
You can imagine that I am not in a hurry to buy this BluRay disc for
my 21:9 (64:27) television...

Greetings,
-- Jeroen

  Jeroen H. Stessen
  Specialist Picture Quality

  Philips Consumer Lifestyle
  Advanced Technology  (Eindhoven)
  High Tech Campus 37 - room 8.042
  5656 AE Eindhoven - Nederland




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