Can you EVER get rid of the letterbox lines when watchin dvd's??

[Dansta]

GRRRR....
This has bothered me for years lol and we have just been discussing it at work.

When watching a film on our widescreen tv's we always get the black lines above and below the picture. Now if your watching a film in widescreen mode why wont it use the whole bloody screen!!!!
the previews/trailers and menu all come up in full screen but when the film starts playing the bloody lines come up... i want to make FULL use of the screen.

Tried all the settings and nothing changes this...
Does it bug anyone else? lol or am i loosing it.

 

[the1]

It pi@@ss me off also .

Have you tried to put your TV aspect ratio on "Subtitle Zoom" (or some like that on your TV) and manually changing the picture to fit the TV?. I know you can't do that with some TV's, but my Philips can.

 

[GazCB]

Widescreen tv's are 16:9 ratio but proper cinema format is more widescreen than that still, so no, unless you change the dvd player or tv settings to chop the sides off and blow the picture up, you'll never get rid of the black lines completely.

 

[MarkCup]

Have a word with the film directors then - get them to stop filming in this pesky 2.35:1 ratio and tell them to concentrate on 16:9 instead

They're 2.35:1 as that's how they were filmed and that's how they're supposed to be watched.

There's nothing worse than a good picture stretched to fill a screen in my opinion. Awful.

 

[Dansta]

Writing the to guild of Filmers now.

 

[KDF]

They can process it when it goes to DVD to make it 16:9 by pan+scan or simmilar. But ultimatly yes, you either put up with the black bars or loose some of the picture... or even worse have the picture streched to fill the screen.

 

[mark_s]

Have a word with the film directors then - get them to stop filming in this pesky 2.35:1 ratio and tell them to concentrate on 16:9 instead

They're 2.35:1 as that's how they were filmed and that's how they're supposed to be watched.

There's nothing worse than a good picture stretched to fill a screen in my opinion. Awful.

ditto. far worse watching it stretched to fill the screen.

this may be useful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)

 

[Munson]

Have a word with the film directors then - get them to stop filming in this pesky 2.35:1 ratio and tell them to concentrate on 16:9 instead

They're 2.35:1 as that's how they were filmed and that's how they're supposed to be watched.

There's nothing worse than a good picture stretched to fill a screen in my opinion. Awful.

Thank god someone else said it first.

 

[Bash]

ok

 

[GazCB]

I disagree, I'm pretty sure I have dvd's in 2.35:1. Big epic stuff usually isn't it like lord of the rings and gladiator?

 

[Tom]

why cant you buy 2.35:1 tv's?

 

[McBunny]

what DVD's have you been buying in 2:35:1? stop buying crap of the chinese DVD man! You shouldnt see letterboxing on your movie, everyone shoots in either 4:3 16:9 or 14:9 safe.

you know nothing then ! tv is filmed in 16:9 film hardly ever especially big epic stuff

 

[McBunny]

why cant you buy 2.35:1 tv's?

you can cinema projectors

 

[KDF]

Most films are not filmed in 16:9

 

[Tom]

why cant you buy 2.35:1 tv's?

you can cinema projectors

why cant you buy 2.35:1 tv's?

 

[McBunny]

because pal and ntsc does not support it

 

[Nigel]

I'd imagine it's to do with television being 4:3 or 16:9.

Why they can't all just use the same format is beyond me.

 

[Munson]

This thread is making me feel ill. Why not just make films in 4:3? Would that keep you 'film buffs' happy?

All stuff was once 4:3, but they went to widescreen donkeys years ago to make the cinema more special. Some films are filmed in 16:9 or even open matte where all aspects are considered in the frame. Most top movies are 2.35:1 though, and so they should be