Scott Calvert
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Nov 2, 1998
- Messages
- 885
Dude, nothing should looked stretched or out-of-proportion - ever.
1:85 is an aspect ratio of width to height. It has nothing to do with wether or not the disc is a dvd or blu-ray. Either format, 1:85 should fill the widescreen tv with no bars on any side of the screen.
2:35 is a slightly wider aspect ratio than 1:85, which means that in order to fit the entire image area into that of the common widescreen television, small black bars will appear above and below the image.
1:33 is yet another aspect ratio which is pretty much square, meaning that on a widescreen set you will have bars on the left and right of the image. The vast majority of films produced before 1950 or so fall into this category, along with lots of material produced for TV before HD became commonplace.
In the early days of DVD, many of the discs were not "enhanced for widescreen". These dvd's would not auto-format to utilize the full resolution of a widescreen TV. They would fill the center "square" area of the screen and the user would have to utilize the zoom function of the television to fill more screen real-estate.
Set your DVD player to output to 16:9. If you have it set to output to 1:33 then you are going to have some stretchy people.
1:85 is an aspect ratio of width to height. It has nothing to do with wether or not the disc is a dvd or blu-ray. Either format, 1:85 should fill the widescreen tv with no bars on any side of the screen.
2:35 is a slightly wider aspect ratio than 1:85, which means that in order to fit the entire image area into that of the common widescreen television, small black bars will appear above and below the image.
1:33 is yet another aspect ratio which is pretty much square, meaning that on a widescreen set you will have bars on the left and right of the image. The vast majority of films produced before 1950 or so fall into this category, along with lots of material produced for TV before HD became commonplace.
In the early days of DVD, many of the discs were not "enhanced for widescreen". These dvd's would not auto-format to utilize the full resolution of a widescreen TV. They would fill the center "square" area of the screen and the user would have to utilize the zoom function of the television to fill more screen real-estate.
Set your DVD player to output to 16:9. If you have it set to output to 1:33 then you are going to have some stretchy people.