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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: nymph4 on November 23, 2011, 01:57:06 PM
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A widescreen Movie is a Movie that was shot on a Widescreen Film were the Film is Wider then High I get this.
And when you play it on a none widescreen TV you have Black Bars Top and Bottum.
This keeps the image in the same size as shot I get all of this.
Now I read on the Net about DVDs that say Enhanced Widescreen.
And they say the Stratch the Image on your none Widescreen TV to be a little Higher.
So this gives you Move Vertical Res. I get this to.
But if you start to stratch the image higher wont it look to stratched because you can go wider your TV allready has it filled to the sides?
So what am I not understanding?
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If by "stretch" you mean expand the DVD image while preserving aspect ratio to fill the height of the TV screen, clearly the width of the movie is going to exceed the TV's borders. If you are using a Home Theater PC for media you could just select "Fit Video to Window" or something along those lines in your media player. If your DVD player does allow changing playback aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3 you could try that also.
This may help:
http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/vem_videodim_aspect_dvd.aspx (http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/vem_videodim_aspect_dvd.aspx)
http://www.ehow.com/info_8728262_people-widescreen-tv-stretched-out.html (http://www.ehow.com/info_8728262_people-widescreen-tv-stretched-out.html)
http://www.greengart.com/Columns/column011.htm (http://www.greengart.com/Columns/column011.htm)
On a side note, if you did manage to fit the movie into your non-widescreen TV without black bars, wouldn't all the people look extremely tall and skinny? ;D Widescreen DVDs are encoded for widescreen displays, and even then they have black bars.
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That is just what I was thinking if you show a Widescreen movie on a None Widescreen TV and do not have Black Bars on top and bottum people will look very Tall and Skinny.
But when I look up Enhanced Widescreen on the net it tells me they give you move Hight on the Video.
And if you can't go out wider then how will this make anything batter???
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How will this make anything better? Enhanced Widescreen is meant to be used for true widescreen displays, not for standard 4:3 displays, and is also meant to minimize the space that the black bars take up. The black bars still exist because the movie was encoded for cinema aspect ratios, commonly 1.85:1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image))
http://www.dvd-b.com/Pages/Ana166.html (http://www.dvd-b.com/Pages/Ana166.html)
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_6_4/feature-article-enhanced-widescreen-november-99.html
Why the fuss over the use of non-enhanced 1.66:1 material on widescreen displays? The fact that such transfers contain about 16% less resolution than their enhanced counterparts is one reason, but a more important one is that their proper exhibition on widescreen displays confounds some of the common solutions that work with other non-enhanced aspect ratios. If non-enhanced 1.66:1 is displayed using "4:3 letterboxed" mode, the image will be "windowboxed," with much of the display area wasted. "ZOOM" modes built into displays can scale the image to fill the screen, but often this functionality is poorly implemented, resulting in dreadfully inferior image quality.
Note that the above website recommends using a HTPC with a good graphics card if you want to scale your video properly with minimal loss of resolution.