will I still get black bars on the side with Treasure Planet? (1 Viewer)

[david*mt]

Since Treasure Planet is in a 1.66:1 aspect ration and a widescreen TV is wider than that, will there be black bars on the sides? It is 16x9 enhanced so I was just wondering.

 

[Todd Hochard]

Probably not, because of overscan on your TV.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

It's nominally 1.66:1, but it is actually slightly wider than that. You would have to have less than 3% overscan on either side to see any of the black bars.

Regards,

 

[Randy B A]

no black bars on the sides of my 16x9 set.

 

[Neil Joseph]

None on my Sony 11HT FPTV setup.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

Ron Epstein posted a number of screen captures that demonstrate the size of the vertical black bars in his review of the disc. Here's one:

The actual aspect ratio is in the neighborhood of 1.69:1

You would need less than 2.5% overscan on either side to actually see the black bars.

Regards,

 

[Neil Joseph]

Maybe this screen caps are from a PC using something like Power DVD?

 

[Ned]

I had pillarboxing but my CRT pj has 0% overscan

 

[Seth Paxton]

Maybe this screen caps are from a PC using something like Power DVD?

Neil, that's what Ken is implying. That's why he says you would need less than 2.5% overscan to see them. Ron obviously uses PC capture systems that show the full canvas of picture info, including black bars however they might be placed.

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Just taking the opportunity to PUSH for Warner and MGM to do 16x9 encoding for their 1.66:1 titles like Disney...

As you can see, there's no problem with typical 16x9 *or* 4x3 viewers seeing any sort of pillar-boxing. The only folks who would see pillarboxing are those with perfectly calibrated (almost 0 overscan) displays which tend to mean tweaked-front projection systems. No problem...those are the folks who *want* to see the bars

 

[Cliff Olson]

A lot of Disneys seem to have 1.66:1 as well. I've *never* had black bars on the sides unless it's not anamorphically transferred. GREAT movie was Treasure Planet!

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

Never mind.