Post #105498

Author: ChainsawAsh
Parent topic: Star Wars - The Phantom Menace - DLP Presentation Question
Link to post in topic: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105498/action/topic#105498
Date created: 13-May-2005, 11:14 AM

The point here is that a lot of times information that *is* on a disc isn't shown on the screen - a little bit always gets cut off the edges on TV screens. TPM was probably framed wrong as that was a 35mm transfer. Example from BEN-HUR:

Actual 70mm scan from the film:

Fixed aspect ratio:

Fixed aspect ratio with the DVD image over the top:

See how much of the image is lost there? That's probably what happened with TPM.

(images taken from the "American WideScreen Museum")