Posts by GusinCA

Ahh, ok, so the crux of the matter is that there are several "wide screen" formats. That's the "problem" so to speak. In a perfect world, HDTV would have been exactly the same ratio as every single movie out there, and every single...

Okay, okay, sorry, I didn't mean to offend the purists here. My point was severalfold: One, if a movie has the black bars on the top and bottom, then you are not getting a full 1080 (or 720, if that's all your TV is capable of, as is...

Why do so many movies (BD or HD) have black bars at the top and bottom? I want my whole TV used, not just the middle section. I understand they want to provide the original theatrical aspect ratio, but I want a 1080p movie, not 3/4 of that.