These are incredible! It’s almost the entire IMAX frame. Little bit cut at the sides doesn’t bother me much as when projected on IMAX film, the film gate would crop a certain amount of information from the edges anyway. The Logo needs to be removed, and the resolution can be upsized to 1280*960 (4:3), as I think 1080p upsizing would be too much. This can be a very good separate project to the 1080p 16:9 version that’s in the works.

Also, be on the lookout for ‘MI: Rogue Nation’ as select scenes (The Water tank scene, The bike riding sequence, etc) were shot using the ARRI ALEXA 65mm camera which has a 16:9 aspect ratio. So, a broadcast sourced from the digital negative will likely be open matte in those scenes as well.

There’s a high probability that Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ will be broadcast 4:3 open matte like this film as well. It’ll be very exciting to watch the original 15/70mm framing.

P.S: The Titanic open matte broadcast, in India, actually has a larger framing than the open matte blu-ray, because it’s an extract of the 1.72:1 (not 1.78) digital negative that was used for the 2.35 crop. The broadcast has the full width of the 2.35:1 Blu-ray (which the 3D BD doesn’t have), and includes almost the full height of the digital negative. I’m saying this because I saw the broadcast. Many of the ship scenes were cropped and pan-scanned for the IMAX presentation. That does not affect the open matte broadcast.