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Just received my S1 today. What a beautiful piece of machinery (like I haven't seen one before right) took the time to hook up very good cables yada-yada, well, for now I only have the freebee disc that comes with it; Fifth Element (1:35 aspect ratio by the way), right, okay, so after the "90 second Initial setup" the expected wait time for setup as accompanied by a sheet of paper that says so, I was like okay. Then after trying to navigate around through the different set up menus, omg, heaven forbid you over press the Video Format button and have to WAIT for it to catch up or for that matter any of the Stop, Start, Pause, Chapter Search functions. Now, come on...aren't we in an age where technology should not have these issues...yes, I read the review articles for the Pioneer and the Sony, and the reviewer was a bit lenient on the two players having s-l-o-w response times, but you have to be kidding me...!! It was almost like the player was thinking "geez will this act infringe on copright laws, uh no, ok" or engineering was like "okay Jim, lets slap this baby together so we can meet the launch deadline (late anyway) and worry about the issues latter!" Anyway the picture is of course fantastic, clean, artifact free and a delight to watch until it froze up once (so far) I've never had a player that had those issues and read many post of folks who had. New thought, I thought all Blu-ray's and HD-DVD's were all to be anamorphic?? no? They should have followed superbit's lead with that...all I can say so far is that are lots of bugs to work out. IMHO - Lets see if the next one is more thought out.
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At least with High Definition material. So far, all of the movies on Blu-ray are presented in their Original Aspect Ratio (sometimes referred to as OAR). The format is based on a total resolution of 1920x1080 pixels.The reason that DVDs used anamorphic squeezing was to increase the resolution when a movie's aspect ratio was wider than 4:3. The DVD format itself is based on the 4:3 format (this works out to 720x480 pixels) and if no anamorphic squeezing is used, then you get the same resolution as laserdisc when a widescreen movie is encoded (the black bars at the top and bottom are actually counted as lines of resolution when doing it this way). By squeezing the wider aspect ratio so that it then fits in the 4:3 "window" of the DVD format, you then use all of the format's available resolution. When the movie is unsqueezed on a 16x9 display, it then has about 30% more resolution than what you would get had you not squeezed it at encoding.
Currently the PS3 is the fastest responding Blu-ray player: it uses the latest Blu-ray drive mechanism. The slower response of your player and the Pioneer unit that it is based on is directly related to the older Pioneer Blu-ray drive mechanism used to read the discs.
Yes, I'm aware and I wasn't very clear in my post. I understand the studio's aspect ratio inconsistencies (choices) and the intended OAR, but I'm over the "black bars top and bottom". The point is that they don't HAVE to be there (as you know there are many disc's that have ratio's to fill our 16x9 set) I can't remember which of the many. Plus today's TV's are larger than ever in our history and they're not being utilized as we expect. Why would you own a 60 or 70 inch to have a portion of the picture shown? Sorry, Just a personal rant :). Back when I owned a laserdisc player, I accepted the widscreen format on my 4:3 set, but that was almost 20 years ago (no I'm not a pan and scan guy nor do I own "full screen" dvd's but I do enjoy when a disc fills my 60" SXRD/XBR2 screen). As for the PS3 I'm are you sure that the drives are different in each?? I'm not a huge proponent of an "all in one" unit, I prefer dedicated equipment. Thanks for your input however.
The PS3 has the latest Blu-ray drive (when compared to the current Pioneer and Sony stand-alone players). It is also capable of Blu-ray Live and supports the Java features of Blu-ray. If there are changes, it's firmware is upgradable. Sony designed it based on the capabilities, present and soon-to-be released, of the Blu-ray format.
I think what you're looking for is a "constant height" projector. The height will be the same, regardless of the aspect rario, but the width will increase with wider aspect ratio movies. This is of course not possible without a front projector (and the associated anamorphic lens and screen). A fixed size display, by definition, is not capable of this and will always have black bars with aspect ratios wider than its own -- unless you zoom and cut off the sides of the movie.
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