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watching TV/films at the wrong aspect ratio
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| Phil r |
so you used to have 4:3 TV aspect ratio. cinema is 2:1 or 16:9 or something like that.
then there's widescreen TV, and DVD.
anyway, so there's lots of different aspect ratio.
does anyone else have a hard time watching programs, where the aspect ratio isn't the original? ie when the picture is flattened from the sides ("long") or from the top and bottom ("squashed")
gives me different kinds of headaches trying to watch it when it's wrong. |
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| tubularbills |
| i used to hate the black bars (i.e. watching 16:9 on a 4:3). but i've gotten used to it. so it doesn't bother me anymore. |
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| Phil r |
| i much prefer having black bars and the right sized pic, than the image stretched all over a wrong sized display |
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| stren |
| i hate it when its stretched, black bars ftw! |
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| jdat |
Always been a fan of the black bars :p
But yes the thing with aspect ratios drives me nuts.
If the picture doesn't seem right I won't be able to stop focusing on that problem.
Couple months back in school we watched a movie in the amphitheater and I went up to the tech guy telling him about the aspect ratio being off and he tells me "oh no it's right ... " |
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| inconspicuous |
there are three settings on most tvs:
-passive (displays whatever picture comes in. black bars.)
-stretch & fill (same as your desktop. fills the screen, distorts the image)
-zoom & crop (fills the screen by zooming in, instead of stretching. crops the rest of the image.)
just use the right one and you'll be fine. if you have a ty or old plasma, don't use passive. you're stuck with that bad picture. otherwise, passive's the best of the three.
also, some films are still shot in 16:9, but most are @ 2.35:1 iirc. better projector screens come in any of the three. |
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| Prometheus Xex |
| quote: | Originally posted by Phil r
i much prefer having black bars and the right sized pic, than the image stretched all over a wrong sized display |
I'm the same. |
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| Groundhog Boy |
| Watching 4:3 shows on 16:9 gives women better racks and hips. Suddenly a C turns into a D. |
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| aquila |
| Watching Biggest Loser like that scares me. |
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| Elec |
It pisses me of the most when image is clearly in the wrong aspect ratio yet nobody seems to care. Examples: internet videos, TVs at electronics stores, publicly visible TV screens, peoples' computer screens. Are you in blind? The picture looks like ! Fix it!
Often times seems like people would rather have the image look like crooked but fill up their top of the line widescreen TV. Hey, if its widescreen its good! |
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| kamil |
| quote: | Originally posted by Elec
It pisses me of the most when image is clearly in the wrong aspect ratio yet nobody seems to care. Examples: internet videos, TVs at electronics stores, publicly visible TV screens, peoples' computer screens. Are you in blind? The picture looks like ! Fix it!
Often times seems like people would rather have the image look like crooked but fill up their top of the line widescreen TV. Hey, if its widescreen its good! |
+1
VLC solves some problems with downloaded movies. press 'a' on your keyboard and it will toggle through different aspect ratios, in case some idiot encoded the video incorrectly and decided it was good enough to share. |
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