Originally posted by: The Dark One
[C]orrect me if I'm wrong, that letterboxing would actually take up more disc space versus anamorphic. I mean, you have to encode the black bands at top and bottom...that must take up disc space, no?
[C]orrect me if I'm wrong, that letterboxing would actually take up more disc space versus anamorphic. I mean, you have to encode the black bands at top and bottom...that must take up disc space, no?
In a word, no. Letterboxing takes up less space, because it's easy to compress black. It takes more bandwidth to encode anamorphic titles, because there's more actual picture information. The black bars are still there, but they're much narrower.