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Could someone tell more the difference between letterbox and anamorphic again?
[no GOUT in CED?-> GOUT CED]
I'm still a little confused about this anamorphic issue.
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Janskeet said:Could someone tell more the difference between letterbox and anamorphic again?
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/index.html
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Janskeet said:Could someone tell more the difference between letterbox and anamorphic again?
This is a very good visual comparison (pay special attention to the two photos a the bottom of the page):
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/anamorphic185demo.html
The main point to remember is that letterboxed DVD images are essentially square(ish). They are made up of a widescreen movie image, sandwiched between two black bars that are PART of the image.
Anamorphic widescreen DVDs are rectangular in shape- like the movie image itself.
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Time for fun with math! Okay, assuming you have a widescreen TV, the amount of "dead space" on your DVDs goes like this:
Anamorphic 1.85:1 Film: Picture is 3.9% black space (1.95% from the top and bottom)
Anamorphic 2.39:1 Film: Picture is 25.62% black space (12.81% from the top and bottom)
Anamorphic 16:9 Film: No black space at all (this is the exact aspect ratio of your TV)
4:3 Film: Picture is 25% black space (12.5% from the left and right)
Nonanamorphic 1.85:1 Film: Picture is 45.95% black space (12.5% from the left and right, 10.47% from the top and bottom)
Nonanamorphic 2.39:1 Film: Picture is 58.16% black space (12.5% from the left and right, 16.58% from the top and bottom)
Nonanamorphic 16:9 Film: Film is 43.75% black space (12.5% from the left and right, 9.38% from the top and bottom)
So, as you can see, nonanamorphic 2.39 film leaves over half of the screen completely black! Unfortunately, the GOUT suffered this fate.
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I watch widescreen movies on my fullscreen TV in my bedroom all the time and all of them appear in widescreen with black bars on top and bottom to obviously make the widescreen fit the space of the TV and these movies I watch are all anamorphic widescreen. But oddly, so of them say Letterbox. Like the four disc Blade Runner DVD set. I will take a picture of the back of the box and post it on here to show you.