Mark-P
Senior HTF Member
Glad to hear you found the culprit. Strange that the PS3 is doing the same thing which is why I thought the display was doing the cropping. I have 2 Sony Blu-ray players and neither of them crop 1.33:1 DVDs.
It isn't lost on me, it's lost on you. The Maltese Falcon is indeed 1.33:1 on DVD, but your previous post suggests it is actually 1.37:1 and is being cropped down to 1.33:1 by the player .Which is not true at all. The image is pre-cropped to 4:3 by the disc producers because 4:3 is the only format DVD supports. My panasonic players and PS3 are then cropping it again to 1.29:1.schan1269 said:So the fact the DVD of Maltese Falcon is 1.33 and the BD is 1.37 is totally lost on you... Done here.
16:9 is the native size of DVD. You have it backwards, hence...your entire problem On this link, scroll down to Spartacus and look at what happens in letterbox and anamorphic letterbox. http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/special/caveat_emptor.htm BD players are not equipped for the choice between anamorphic and standard letterbox for DVD.EddieLarkin said:16:9 DVDs do not exist. All DVDs are 4:3, including widescreen films, which are squashed into their correct AR by the player. This is what Anamorphic Widescreen is. I explained this only two posts ago.
Only Blu-rays have presented movies in 1.37:1. Pretty much every DVD manufactured to date has been 1.33:1 (or less)Research aspect ratios. You'll find the original DVD for 1.37 movies was adjusted to 1.33...by the player. When you set your DVD player for 16:9 it re-sets the image to the correct 1.37...instead of a cropped 1.33.
Here you go: Screencaps at the Beev. While the captures from both releases measure 1.33:1 exactly. The Criterion has tiny black bars on the sides bringing the AR to about 1.312:1 and the EMS region 2 release has about 2 pixels of black bar at the top bringing the AR to about 1.338:1. Neither comes close to 1.37:1.schan1269 said:Fassbender's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" or "Fear Eats the Soul" isn't 1.37:1
Nobody is talking about widescreen movies in this thread.schan1269 said:The Darjeeling Limited really isn't 2.40:1 non-anamorphic...