All (99.999999999%) of all flat panel HDTVs are 16 by 9 rectangles (1.78:1 aspect ratio), with black bars at the bottom and top for even movies with a 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
Personally I dislike those black bars, and they are in roughly 90%+ of all my movies watching.
The best Cinema experience is from a front projector (IMHO), and with the appropriate screen's aspect ratio to fit most of all popular movie director's cinematography.
How many people here have such a screen, and with the proper front projector, so that no black bars appear at the bottom and top when watching a movie in the 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 aspect ratio?
And what do you do with a movie that has a 2.55:1 aspect ratio or so?
* For me the best is what the movie director with his cinematographer have decided to project his film with his preferred screen's aspect ratio.
Our flat panel HDTVs are a liability, a compromise; and I want to get rid of it. ...No more black bars. I want to be in my own theater at home without them.
If you understand how I feel about this, please share some so that me too, without spending the 'bank', I can experience the movie director's original intended creation. ...And the black bars simply don't cut it, no more.
Personally I dislike those black bars, and they are in roughly 90%+ of all my movies watching.
The best Cinema experience is from a front projector (IMHO), and with the appropriate screen's aspect ratio to fit most of all popular movie director's cinematography.
How many people here have such a screen, and with the proper front projector, so that no black bars appear at the bottom and top when watching a movie in the 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 aspect ratio?
And what do you do with a movie that has a 2.55:1 aspect ratio or so?
* For me the best is what the movie director with his cinematographer have decided to project his film with his preferred screen's aspect ratio.
Our flat panel HDTVs are a liability, a compromise; and I want to get rid of it. ...No more black bars. I want to be in my own theater at home without them.
If you understand how I feel about this, please share some so that me too, without spending the 'bank', I can experience the movie director's original intended creation. ...And the black bars simply don't cut it, no more.