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In Reply to: Why is 2.35:1 so overused on DVDs? posted by CarlEber on December 17, 2001 at 20:07:50:
Perhaps when you saw TPM in the theater, the screen was roughly 1.85:1 or maybe 2.1:1, and the true aspect ratio of 2.35:1 was cut off on the sides. It seems that you view 1.85:1 as being TALLER than 2.35:1 rather than perceiving 2.35:1 as being WIDER than 1.85:1. You may have seen an improper projection of TPM where the sides of the frame were actually cut off, but what you THINK you saw was more information on the top and bottom of the true framing. And now that you see a wider/shorter 2.35:1 image on the DVD, you think there is information missing from the [NON-EXISTANT] 1.85:1 framing of TPM.The truth is that "The Phantom Menace" has an ORIGINAL aspect ratio of 2.35:1, NOT 1.85:1. I will admit that I laughed when I first read your original post. It was almost like saying BEN-HUR really has an aspect ratio of 1.66:1 or something. Face it, you're wrong. Your memory is wrong, your eyes are wrong, your opinions of the aspect ratio of TPM are wrong.
"Why is 2.35:1 so overused on DVDs?" Well if you don't like those pesky black bars, deal with it. A director's intent is more important than Joe Nobody's intolerance of the only way to display widescreen material wider than 16:9. It's not that 2.35:1 is overused, it's that YOU cannot seem to tolerate black bars even on a 16:9 display. It appears you are trying to convince yourself that 2.35:1 movies are the result of vertical cropping so that you don't feel as offended by the director's intent for a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
"Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace" is NOT 1.85:1 nor was it EVER. To say that you saw more information on the top and bottom in the theaters is to say that the 35mm release prints of TPM were in fact not 2.35:1 anamorphic scope, but rather undistorted 1.37:1 open matte or thereabouts. There certainly is very, very little additional picture information around the edges of a scope print. I believe SMPTE specifies a particular area of the 2.35:1 anamorphic prints to be projected with just a sliver of information reaching the extremes of the frame.
Okay, I'm done.
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- Re: Why is 2.35:1 so overused on DVDs? - George_L 11:43:30 12/21/01 (1)
- <sigh> (nt) - CarlEber 02:01:45 12/23/01 (0)
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