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Title: Anamorphic Widescreen explained
Post by: DiabloTX on September 01, 2003, 08:51:54 PM

If you've ever wondered what anamorphic widescreen was, here is the place to visit.  

I love what they use as an example to show the various widescreens.  

Anamorphic widescreen explained (http://www.dvdweb.co.uk/information/anamorphic.htm)

Title: Anamorphic Widescreen explained
Post by: Halo on September 01, 2003, 10:40:02 PM

Thanks for sharing that find.  I'm salivating for one of those big wide thin screen HDTVs, but at $5k to $9k ... not in this lifetime.

Title: Anamorphic Widescreen explained
Post by: rpm on September 02, 2003, 03:34:47 AM

Altho mine is not a plasma, I love my 65" HD projection. :D

Title: Anamorphic Widescreen explained
Post by: Wanker on September 02, 2003, 11:29:46 AM

Very informative, thanks for sharing that link, Diablo.

Title: Anamorphic Widescreen explained
Post by: gofaster on September 02, 2003, 02:09:35 PM

Interested presentation, but I can't help but wonder, why not simply broadcast the original image rather than cropping and expanding?  It would seem kinda like flying in AH with your zoom constantly enabled.

Title: Anamorphic Widescreen explained
Post by: Chairboy on September 02, 2003, 02:54:42 PM

Because people who don't know better think that when they watch the letterbox version of a film that the top and bottom are being cut off.

"Gosh dangit, I paid a thousand dollars for this here TV, and your movie done only fills part of the middle of the screen!  What sort of them there shenanigans is you trying to pull?"

Title: Anamorphic Widescreen explained
Post by: DiabloTX on September 02, 2003, 05:03:26 PM

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Originally posted by Chairboy
"Gosh dangit, I paid a thousand dollars for this here TV, and your movie done only fills part of the middle of the screen!  What sort of them there shenanigans is you trying to pull?"

LMFAO!!!  If only I had a dollar for every time I have heard that.  I actually heard one bluehair say, "I don't know why they even make letterbox, you can't see the movie!!"  :rolleyes: