[opendtv] Re: Ever seen a quad-HD display ?
- From: "Donald Koeleman" <donald.koeleman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:38:42 +0200
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From: "Jeroen Stessen" <jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:16 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Ever seen a quad-HD display ?
> Hi,
>
> >> Donald "4:3" Koeleman wrote:
> Donald:
> > I love wide aspectratio's, at the proper pictureheight that is. In this
> > respect 29" crt still beats a 32" crt, considering most broadcast
> content
> > is still 'merely' 4:3.
>
> It depends on where you take your content from. Broadcast for the masses,
> yes, it's mostly 4:3. Broadcast for the film lovers is increasingly 16:9.
> Take for example this free (as in gratis) movie-only channel:
> http://www.channel4.com/film/
> 3 movies per evening, always 16:9, with no broadcaster logos, and with
> only a few interruptions for advertizing. Good picture quality too !
Forgot to add, what is a cinephile channel doing, butchering artists work,
by cutting them up to mere 16:9. I would hope they only show 16:9 if that
was the intended output format, showing the original 1.85:1 or 2.35:1, or
whatever other format the makers decided upon when they made the movie.
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