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I hate black bars around movies
- Thread starter Sid
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My TV provides me with the epitome of the cinematic visual experience known to mankind.
i don't mind black bars, but i am not a smart man so someone tell me what's up with those movies that are just tiny boxes on screen?
You are asking for them to cut out part of the picture so it fills the screen. You're asking for less video.
You can do this yourself in virtually any modern media player application by applying your own crop if you want. There is a reason most people don't do this, though.
You can do this yourself in virtually any modern media player application by applying your own crop if you want. There is a reason most people don't do this, though.
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those films, when viewed on a television, exhibit letter boxing because televisions are 16:9 aspect ratio.
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No I am asking them to be fullscreen like HD movies in 2007-10
well, i recently watched tombstone on dvd and the movie was in a tiny box in the middle of the screen. i have a bunch of dvds that do this.
edit: i think it's called windowboxing.
Can't believe people paid money to see black bars at a theatre, why didn't they zoom it.
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OK, what about TV shows like Parks and Rec. They look pretty awesome, which aspect ratio is that?
Maybe you were watching Tombstone on a DVD designed for the old square TVs (4:3) used before widescreen TVs (16:9) became the norm. Or the DVD you used had the widescreen movie on it, but it was still designed for square TVs, so not only did you get the black bars you'd normally seen on the square TV but also the ones normally seen on widescreen TVs too.
Thats a modern TV show, so it was made for modern 16:9 screens. The shape will match the shape of your screen, so no black bars.
aspect ratio is an artistic choice but you have full control over what your movie viewing experience looks like so just set the tv to crop the image and be done with it
