This page has a lot of information about letterboxing and aspect ratios: http://widescreen.org/widescreen.shtml Start out watching the animation of the television then click around on the site; there is a lot of material buried there. Shawn Dowler Information Designer shawn.dowler@gmail.com http://walkingtowel.org On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 19:52, Kurt Granroth wrote: > On 2/26/10 7:39 PM, Nathan England wrote: >> I recently bought a so called hi-def tv screen and despite its 1360,768 >> 780p resolution my movies still have the black borders! What gives? I >> thought having a hi-def wide screen would fix the black borders issue. >> If I hook up a hdmi connection to a new dvd player, is it still going to >> have the annoying black borders? Funny when we were all full screen we >> wanted to be widescreen, now we are widescreen and we want to have a >> fullscreen! > > Ah, but "wide screen" is all in the eye of the beholder.  HDTVs are > called wide screen because they have a 16:9 aspect ratio as compared to > the 4:3 aspect ratio of previous screens.  But 16:9 isn't the only wide > aspect ratios out there.  In fact, pretty much all movies are shot in > 1.85:1 or 2.39:1.  That's why you still have the black bars, even on > your HDTV -- they may be wider than your older TV but they still aren't > as wide as a movie screen. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss