Originally posted by: Cable-X1
Widescreen TVs are made to eliminate those black bars provided the movie is anamorphic.
Widescreen TVs are made to eliminate those black bars provided the movie is anamorphic.
Not true! Well, not entirely true.
An anamorphic movie on DVD means that the black bars are smaller, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're eliminated. Material at exactly 16:9 (1.78:1) will be free of black bars, but something like Star Wars -- which is 2.35:1 or thereabouts -- will (and should) still have black bars. Still, much more of the information on the DVD would be picture information, with only small black bars encoded to pad out the image to 16:9. You can't eliminate the black bars for Star Wars on DVD!