restwhich-8F1AA8.07530411052009@newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com...Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And displaying
Having a TV with a 21:9 aspect ratio wouldn't make any difference,as the"Smitty Two" <prestwhich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I read something the other day, or maybe I just dreamed it, that
there's a new TV coming out with true cinema aspect ratio -- 21:9. No
more letterboxing for movies. Anyone seen it? I guess we'll have to
throw away all the 16:9 sets in a few years ...
Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And
displaying narrower aspect ratios would require side panels, which are
infinitely more irritating than letterboxing.
But not 1.85:1 or wider. Those are letterboxed. (The slight overscan of most
You're not dreaming. Philips announced a 21:9 set since about Jan
Just curious, but how do you display 4:3 material on a 16:9 screen without"Smitty Two" <prestwhich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I read something the other day, or maybe I just dreamed it, that
there's a new TV coming out with true cinema aspect ratio -- 21:9. No
more letterboxing for movies. Anyone seen it? I guess we'll have to
throw away all the 16:9 sets in a few years ...
Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And displaying
narrower aspect ratios would require side panels, which are infinitely
more irritating than letterboxing.
You don't (other than stretching the image). I didn't say you did.In article <gu9f4n$g07$1@news.motzarella.org>,
William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:
"Smitty Two" <prestwhich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I read something the other day, or maybe I just dreamed it, that
there's a new TV coming out with true cinema aspect ratio -- 21:9. No
more letterboxing for movies. Anyone seen it? I guess we'll have to
throw away all the 16:9 sets in a few years ...
Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And displaying
narrower aspect ratios would require side panels, which are infinitely
more irritating than letterboxing.
Just curious, but how do you display 4:3 material on a 16:9 screen without
'side panels'?
Right. Just wondered about the 'infinitely more irritating than letter
I find the gray panels on the side distracting in a way that I don't find
"William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote in
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"Smitty Two" <prestwhich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news
..
I read something the other day, or maybe I just dreamed it, that
there's a new TV coming out with true cinema aspect ratio -- 21:9. No
more letterboxing for movies. Anyone seen it? I guess we'll have to
throw away all the 16:9 sets in a few years ...
Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And
displaying narrower aspect ratios would require side panels, which are
infinitely more irritating than letterboxing.
Having a TV with a 21:9 aspect ratio wouldn't make any difference,as the
broadcast standard doesn't include 21:9 ratio.And changing that standard
would make all the current TVs and converters a problem as they would be
unable to display the new format.They would not be able to have their
software upgraded.
Besides,16:9 sets today don't letterbox;they display the 16:9 format full
screen.They only pillarbox the older 4:3 format,and the old NTSC sets
letterbox the 16:9 format.
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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
they're called "pillars".(wiki) ie;"pillarboxing"."Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5059de539cdave@davenoise.co.uk...
In article <gu9f4n$g07$1@news.motzarella.org>,
William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:
"Smitty Two" <prestwhich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news
..
I read something the other day, or maybe I just dreamed it, that
there's a new TV coming out with true cinema aspect ratio --
21:9. No more letterboxing for movies. Anyone seen it? I guess
we'll have to throw away all the 16:9 sets in a few years ...
Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And
displaying narrower aspect ratios would require side panels, which
are infinitely more irritating than letterboxing.
Just curious, but how do you display 4:3 material on a 16:9 screen
without 'side panels'?
In article <gu9f4n$g07$1@news.motzarella.org>,
William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:
"Smitty Two" <prestwhich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news
I read something the other day, or maybe I just dreamed it, that
there's a new TV coming out with true cinema aspect ratio -- 21:9. No
more letterboxing for movies. Anyone seen it? I guess we'll have to
throw away all the 16:9 sets in a few years ...
Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And displaying
narrower aspect ratios would require side panels, which are infinitely
more irritating than letterboxing.
Just curious, but how do you display 4:3 material on a 16:9 screen without
'side panels'?
--
*A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.*
Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.
Right. You've paid for a widescreen set so every inch of the picture must
21:9 is close to Panavision/CinemaScope. I think there are video cameras
My point is that technology procreates. Once a given percentage of the"William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote in
news:gu9f4n$g07$1@news.motzarella.org:
"Smitty Two" <prestwhich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news
..
I read something the other day, or maybe I just dreamed it, that
there's a new TV coming out with true cinema aspect ratio -- 21:9. No
more letterboxing for movies. Anyone seen it? I guess we'll have to
throw away all the 16:9 sets in a few years ...
Highly unlikely. Where would you get the software for it? And
displaying narrower aspect ratios would require side panels, which are
infinitely more irritating than letterboxing.
Having a TV with a 21:9 aspect ratio wouldn't make any difference,as the
broadcast standard doesn't include 21:9 ratio.And changing that standard
would make all the current TVs and converters a problem as they would be
unable to display the new format.They would not be able to have their
software upgraded.
Besides,16:9 sets today don't letterbox;they display the 16:9 format full
screen.They only pillarbox the older 4:3 format,and the old NTSC sets
letterbox the 16:9 format.