Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
Originally posted by: yourmother
... And those black bars on 2.35 movies like Star Wars are encoded in the stream, not player generated. Pop one into the computer and you'll notice, playing it back not at full-screen, that they have black bars. Since no TVs are wider than 16:9, why bother encoding it any wider than 16:9, right? That's why the black bars are there. ...
Originally posted by: yourmother
... And those black bars on 2.35 movies like Star Wars are encoded in the stream, not player generated. Pop one into the computer and you'll notice, playing it back not at full-screen, that they have black bars. Since no TVs are wider than 16:9, why bother encoding it any wider than 16:9, right? That's why the black bars are there. ...
Zion, will your bars be encoded in the stream or player generated? That'd be really sweet if it was player generated like most movies nowadays. They still look kickass regardless.