Originally posted by: zombie84
Regarding a 2:35 image on a 16x9 screen, its both anamorphic and letterboxed since its the only way to get an image of a different shape to fit on the screen--so yes, the tiny black bars are letterboxed. Instead of with a normal 4x3 tv where the whole image is letterboxed, 16x9 tvs can display as much of the image anamorphically as the screen permits with the remainder thus having to be letterboxed--films shot 16x9 can be true anamorphic, 1:85 will have tiny, tiny letterboxing, 2:40 will have slightly more letterboxing, and if you watch Ben Hurr in its OAR it will look even more letterboxed.
Regarding a 2:35 image on a 16x9 screen, its both anamorphic and letterboxed since its the only way to get an image of a different shape to fit on the screen--so yes, the tiny black bars are letterboxed. Instead of with a normal 4x3 tv where the whole image is letterboxed, 16x9 tvs can display as much of the image anamorphically as the screen permits with the remainder thus having to be letterboxed--films shot 16x9 can be true anamorphic, 1:85 will have tiny, tiny letterboxing, 2:40 will have slightly more letterboxing, and if you watch Ben Hurr in its OAR it will look even more letterboxed.
Blu-ray and HD-DVD don't support anamorphic data? In other words, since Star Wars isn't 16x9, it will have to be letterboxed in the actual, visual data contained on the discs? (An anamorphic image can't be corrected along the vertical axis and then given black bars by the playback software?)