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Old 01-04-2006, 01:42 PM   #9
Sir Goulum
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Join Date: February 7, 2002
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Quote:
Originally posted by Zink Whistlefly:
Most widescreen TV's are in 16:9 format. Many DVD movies are also in 16:9 format (shown on the back of the DVD as 1.85:1 meaning that for every 1.85 horizontal pixels there is 1 vertical pixels) which would fit perfectly with no black lines or distortion. Most DVD movies are however a much wider 2.35:1 aspect. This will not completely fill a 16:9 widescreen TV, but the size of the black bars at the top and bottom of the movie will be substantially less than a 4:3 screen. You can use zoom functions to get a correct aspect full screen image but by doing this you are cropping the sides of the image. I'm not even sure that you can get a native 2.35:1 widescreen TV since most broadcasts would have to be stretched.

This flash movie explains this perfectly.
Ah, I see. So basically there isn't much to fix it. Oh well! Thanks for the info.

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Here ya go
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