by EvaFan » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:23 pm
It's not that it seems like a waste of screen space... I guess it just doesn't seem normal after so many years of 4:3 and 16:9.
Moreover I could understand the usefulness of a very wide screened camera for cinema to give a spherical horizontal vision effect more of that of the human eyes. We see side to side more then we see top to bottom.
I guess it just doesn't look good on a TV. That video was good but the AR still bothered me. I don't notice the 2.35/1 in theaters I guess cause there is no bordered TV behind it. Like for instance I enjoyed the transformers movie and it was 2.35/1 but I watched it with a friend at their house and was awed by how ugly it looked on his HDTV.
Maybe it has something to do with the Black TV background around it that I cant stand, not the fact that it is a waste of TV space. I need to look more into my TV to find out if it has that zoom option that bashar talked about.
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