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Time to change the name, guys.

If you have a widescreen TV, and you buy the full screen DVD, the picture won’t fill the screen.

Comments [3]

28 February 2007, 11:49

  1. They’re really all misnomers, aren’t they? I mean, half the time if you buy a widescreen DVD and you have a widescreen DVD, it STILL doesn’t fill the screen because it may or may not be anamorphic. There are a lot of useless terms thrown around in the home entertainment industry….


    — Darren R. Sussman    28 February 2007, 12:12    #

  2. Actually, that’s not because it may or may not be anamorphic, it’s because there are different versions of widescreen, like 1.66:1 or 1.85:1. If you’re monitor is widescreen at 1.66:1 but your movie is widescreen at 1.85:1 (anamorphic or not), you’ll see black bars.

    “Anamorphic” just has to do with the way the data is stored on the DVD. The data is expanded to use the “area” that would otherwise be encoding black bars…


    — H    28 February 2007, 16:08    #

  3. Right, right. You knew what I meant.


    — Darren R. Sussman    5 March 2007, 08:47    #