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

  • From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:56:04 -0400

I'm pretty sure there have been other 4:3 movies on BD that displayed
properly on various 16:9 equipment owned by AVS members.   And I'm 100%
sure they are intended to display in the correct aspect ratio.  
Something is wrong.

- Tom


Cliff Benham wrote:
> The point is that this 1.33:1 film displays 1:1 on a 4:3 monitor.
> The industry cannot ignore a format that encompasses the greatest
> part of the film catalog across the whole wide world.
> I have the reasonable right to  expect this film to fill a 4:3 screen.
> It IS a 4:3 Film!!!
>
> IF the attitude from the manufacturers is that 4:3 doesn't exist for
> blu-ray, then you will be hearing from lots of unhappy consumers, not
> just one engineer.
>
> THIS IS A HUGE, HUGE MISS!
>
> Cliff Benham
>
>
> Stessen, Jeroen wrote:
>> 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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