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Widescreen

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What is the natural widescreen aspect ratio that widescreen DVD's run in? I saw a DVD on a 16:10, and it had black bars on the side. Would a DVD running on a 16:9 display have black bars?
 
Some DVDs are 4:3, so they'd have black bars on the sides when run on a 16:10 screen. Most widescreen DVDs are 16:9 (modified for widescreen TVs, which are 16:9 vs 16:10 for WS monitors)--those would give you thin, almost unnoticeable black bars on the top and bottom. AFAIK there are also some 2.35:1(or close to that) DVDs, unmodified from the original theatrical aspect ratio. That's of course 23.5:10 or approx. 16:6.5--so you'll get huge black bars on the top and bottom, eating away around 35% of your screen space.
 
16:6.5.....wow. i was watching pirates of the carribean on my 19" crt, and i could swear it was something like that :eek:
 
The most annoying thing I found out after getting a widescreen monitor, some DVDs claim to be widescreen, but they aren't. They are 4:3 and letterboxed. So the DVD player plays it letterboxed inside of a 4:3 box in the middle of the screen.

IMO when a company puts "widescreen, original theatrical aspect!" on the box, it should damn well work at the original aspect on a widescreen TV or monitor. I really hope they don't ever do that with high definition DVDs when they are released.
 
they have little boxes on the back stating the aspect.
 
Kinda offtopic, and I guess I have too much free time on my hands... just wanted to see what a 2.35:1 monitor would look like (took a pic of 2005fpw from dell's website and modified it):

 
A 2.35:1 ratio monitor sure would suck for non-super-wide movies though. You'd have to have black bars on the sides for every other aspect ratio just like current widescreen monitors need for displaying 4:3 content.

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