![]() ![]() ![]() As a consumer, I am less than happy not be able to use all of the 46 inches of my HDTV to view movies as the director intended them to be seen. Yes, we can always use our HDTV or Blu-Ray player functionality to expand the image, but the anamorphic conversion is never perfect. You would have thought that the HDTV engineers would have taken this into consideration when they settled on the 16:9 ratio, well apparently not, and we are left with viewing theatrical content not filmed in 1.78:1 in a letter box. To display the 2.40:1 content accurately on a 1.78:1 display, the HDTV is forced to produce bars at the top and bottom. Most theatrical content is filmed in an aspect ratio of 2.40:1, while the aspect ratio of HDTV is 1.78:1 (commonly referred to as 16:9). ![]() Well it is not a problem, it is by design. At the beginning, I thought there that as well, however the issue is not with the setup it is with the content. Everyone believes that there must be something wrong with their settings. Unfortunately when I view certain theatrical (movies) HD content from Directv or my Blu-Ray player, most of it displays in a letterbox with black lines on the top and bottom.Īfter extolling the virtues of HDTV and Blu-Ray to my family and friends, I get a lot of questions about this effect since the elimination of letterboxing was one of the features often touted by HDTV proponents. If the source is 1080P it shows up on my HDTV as 1080P, if it is 720P it shows up as 720P, and so on. I have adjusted all my devices to stream content in their native mode. I am a very big proponent of letting the content creator determine how it is streamed to my 16:9 HDTV. ![]()
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