360 on 3:2

[UberPooner]

hey, ino the 360 looks best on 16:9 and it gets cut off on 4:3 but what does it look like when it is played on tv that only supports a 3:2 ratio?

[WhiteZero]

3:2? What TV do you have that has 3:2?

Anyway, I'm sure it'll just look a bit stretched. I'm just praying MS will update the 360 to support 16:10

[seniorpaul]

If you set your video cables to SD, you will have a full screen picture on your 3:2 television. If you have a HD 3:2 tv, and you set your video output to HD, then you will have black bars on the top/bottom (just like if you were watching a widescreen movie). To my knowledge, there is no way to get an HD picture without the black bars.

[trivial]

3:2? What TV do you have that has 3:2?

There can be 3:2 pulldown frame rhythm in the specs, for playing back DVD movies.

3:2 aspect ratio is new to me. I've never even seen it mentioned in the context of early T.V. history.

[Kahnvex]

The question being asked is not the right one... The answer to the question you asked would be "It looks like nothing" since theres no such thing as a 3:2 TV.

If you're talking about a full frame aspect ratio TV, you mean 4:3.

Widescreen, you mean 16:9

3:2 does not refer to the size of the TV, and there is no such thing as a 3:2 aspect ratio DVD movie.


3:2 refers to 3:2 pulldown which is basically something your DVD player does to more closely match how whatever you are watching was filmed (movies are filmed in 24fps) to how an NTSC TV displays it. It gets real freaking technical to describe it any more than that, but the wikipedia entry on it is pretty easy to understand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3:2_pulldown#3:2_pulldown

[trivial]

there is no such thing as a 3:2 aspect ratio DVD movie.
I didn't mean to imply that there was such a thing, if you were referring to what I posted. But it's interesting that there is a broadcast precedent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/405_line) for using 5:4 ratio like 1280 x 1024 LCDs.

edit: There were 3:2 aspect silent films too, in the Viventoscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_formats) process.

[seniorpaul]

If you set your video cables to SD, you will have a full screen picture on your 3:2 television. If you have a HD 3:2 tv, and you set your video output to HD, then you will have black bars on the top/bottom (just like if you were watching a widescreen movie). To my knowledge, there is no way to get an HD picture without the black bars.

I read the OP a little to quickly, and i was referring to 4:3 televisions. I'm guessing most everyone caught that, but i just wanted to clarify.

[Kahnvex]

I didn't mean to imply that there was such a thing, if you were referring to what I posted. But it's interesting that there is a broadcast precedent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/405_line) for using 5:4 ratio like 1280 x 1024 LCDs.

edit: There were 3:2 aspect silent films too, in the Viventoscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_formats) process.

No I didn't mean you, I meant the op, because of the question "what does 300 look like on a 3:2 TV" which doesn't exist. The reason I said no such thing on DVD, not, no such thing ever filmed, is because I knew if I said never ever, someone would find an obscure link showing that somewhere at some time, what I said didn't exist, did.


And lookythere! Someone did!

:D