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In Reply to: RE: It's not Blu-ray's fault, it's the fault of your TV posted by racerguy on November 25, 2008 at 14:00:01

When the manufacture's got together to develop a widescreen HD TV they asked the movie industry to help out.
They refused.
So the manufacture's went about developing HD without the movie industry's input.
The problem is that their aren't any widescreen standard among the movie maker's, so how could the TV designer's make ONE TV screen size.

You don't see any problem in a movie theater because they have movable
curtains to mask the different aspect ratio's.

http://www.high-techproductions.com/widescreen.htm

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There certainly ARE standard aspect ratios for movies. - jeffreybehr 17:48:50 12/02/08 (1)
The two standards are 1.85 and 2.35(2.39). How can you say there are no standards when probably-99% of the motion pictures released in the US in the last 20 years have been in one of these ratios?
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- Just two? - GTF 21:08:09 12/02/08 (0)
  Their are more then two.
  That's why no matter what the TV manufacture's set as their standard,
  sometimes there are going to black bars.
  
  * 1.33:1 A standard television set; roughly equivalent to 4:3.
  * 1.37:1 Referred to as the academy aspect ratio.
  The standard for films shot before the mid-1950s.
  * 1.66:1 A bit wider than a standard TV, but not by much.
  * 1.78:1 The dimensions of a widescreen television set;
  roughly equivalent to 16:9.
  * 1.85:1 Popular aspect ratio for many movies.
  * 2.35: Another popular aspect ratio for movies.

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