TV Picture Formatting

Oh yeah. Everything is fine. I didn’t realize you guys were out of the country. Hope you’re having a great time over there!

I just wanted to inform you about my findings when I stopped by your house the other day.

I’m pretty sure there’s nothing wrong with the picture formatting on either the TV or the Blu-Ray player. One of the Blu-Ray movies was actually Standard (4:3 aspect ratio). I have never seen a Blu-Ray movie in this ratio, but apparently they exist. because the TV is 16:9 aspect ratio, the 4:3 aspect ratio is displayed in the center and the left and right sides are left black. This is actually a technique called letterbox – whereby one ratio is ‘formatted’ to fit another screen size. The TV *can* fill the screen, but then image cropping and stretching would be required, distorting the original image on the disc.

The other movie, District 9 I believe it was, was actually formatted Panavision Widescreen. This is a common format especially for movie theatres. But since the ratio is actually wider than the TV (2.35:1), we now get a letterbox effect on the top and bottom instead of the left and right. This is normal and the expected behavior.

Does that make sense?

Best,

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc. ————————————————————————————- hunter@brainspiral.com http://brainspiral.com w: 413-458-5755 c: 413-281-4918

On Mar 29, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Karen wrote:

> Hey, > > Bob told me you called the other night. > > Everything okay? > > Thanks, > K > > > >