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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | I thought Blu-Ray did away with black space on top and bottom as seen on wide screen movies? However my 2nd blu-ray which is Passion of the Christ: Definitive Edition which has both the theater and uncut version on it.
The uncut version has the black space on top and bottom. I haven't looked at the other version yet. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Blu-ray did not get rid of letterboxing. It improves the picture quality, but it does not change the aspect ratios. 16:9 widescreen is, approximately, 1.78:1. Films shot in other aspect ratios will still have the black bars. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Unicus is correct. As with DVD, Blu-ray still uses the same aspect ratios. So those with 1.78:1 will have no bars, 1.85:1 will have practically no bars and those with a higher ratio will be quite visible. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yup. Letterboxing is here to stay.
The only way Letterboxing will go away is if movies and TV's were all designed with the same aspect ratio - but movies will tend to have far wider aspect ratios because they want to look "better" in the theater than on the TV.
Originally, movies were filmed in 4:3 but widened it for that very reason. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | What blu-ray did get rid of was anamorphic widescreen. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Randall:
The previous posters are absolutely correct. A little common sense is in order here, HOW could you get rid of the black bars in ALL cases. You have screen which is FIXED at 1.78:1 it cannot change, so how could you possibly get rid of the black bars for ANY given film which was filmed in some other Aspect Ratio, UNLESS you present it in a format which was not as theatrically presented, which is what OAR is all about. You cannot put 2.35 into a 1.78 box without bars.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,946 |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ah, but then you get huge black bars on the sides (pillar bars) when watching standard TV!  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
Ah, but then you get huge black bars on the sides (pillar bars) when watching standard TV! Yep, we can't win. Unless we buy a 3 TV's  | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
What blu-ray did get rid of was anamorphic widescreen. True enough. This may be what has caused some of the confusion. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for the information. I just thought anamorphic cause the bars and since that was no more I would not see any. I was wrong. | | | | Last edited: by Randall_Lind |
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | | Posts: 405 |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Calidain: Quote:
A front projector would work!!! Especially with this! | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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