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Re: DVD with anamorphic, compared to DVD with "enhanced for widescreen TV" ???

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Posted by Dan G. on March 12, 2001 at 11:59:21

In Reply to: DVD with anamorphic, compared to DVD with "enhanced for widescreen TV" ??? posted by Elizabeth on March 12, 2001 at 11:32:29:

OK here's my try at an explanation, I may mess up some terms, but I know the theory is correct here.

Anamorphic or "Enhanced for Widescreen TV's" means the same thing in my book. Basically all 480 lines of the movie image are captured (as opposed to letterboxing, which only fits the movie into 320 lines, and usese the rest for the top & bottom black bars).
Now the Enhanced/Anamorphic part is that to get the whole wide screen image at full resolution onto a 4:3 frame (like your TV) they gotta squish the image in- making things tall & skinny liek the credits during old Kung Fu flicks.
MY friends watch DVD'd on normal 4:3 TV like this , preferring to not loose any image size.

Now, you nice handy Sony TV, is capable of receiving this Widescreen image, which has been squished to fit in a 4:3 TV, and your Sony can un-squish it.
So, for anamorphic/enahnced stuff you will have the nice picture you speak of. For "widescreen letterboxed" pictures, you will have a decent, but fuzzier image, as 25% of the image resolution is wasted on black bars. Non-widescreen pictures, if you watch in anamorphic mode, may seem streched (too wide).

Hope this helps some.
DG

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