[opendtv] Re: Popular screen aspect ratios

  • From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:52:56 -0500



On 12/29/2010 8:20 AM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Source must be

accommodate to the actual screen aspect ratio. 4:3 and 16:9 are common
presents, but are by no means the only aspect ratios that can be
displayed undistorted. You can see this all the time with SD DVDs that
use different number of active lines to support wider than 16:9 source
formats.
Blu Ray disks of movies like 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Fantasia', and many other 1.33 to 1.37 films do not play correctly on a 4:3 aspect ratio screen. 

They display as a 1:1 SQUARE image with vertical bars on the left and right.

The Blu Ray Snobs decided to completely ignore 4:3 displays.

Cliff



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