Re: Widescreen problems....is it me?

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

darren_karp2001 wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
>  Can someone take some time to explain to me what the difference is
>  between widescreen and fullscreen in the sense that some DVD's which
>  I play back via my MVP take up all (or almost all) of my 32"
Panny WS
>  TV yet others have huge black bars top and bottom!
>
>  Is there a way of converting these movies displaying the letterbox so
>  that it covers more of the screen?


Sounds like you're watching a mixture of 16:9 format and 21:9 format
stuff. Most projected film formats (ie what you watch in the cinema) are
21:9. Sometimes they're masked down to 16:9 for DVD, and widescreen TV
material is usually either 16:9 or masked 14:9 (which can also be masked
the other way for 12:9 aka 4:3).

Not much you can do about it unless you want to distort the image
(stretch it vertically) or lop the sides off...

Jim