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SloppyJoe
23-10-2001, 16:20
As in the question - I know the difference about ratios but don't understand how a widescreen 2:35 film can be enhanced for 16:9 televisions and not for 4:3 televisions.
Anyone out there with the knowledge?
Kryten
23-10-2001, 16:24
Enhanced for 16:9 TV basically means that the picture is anamorphic. There is a great site showing how an anamorphic picture is better but I can't remember it off the top of my head! (I'm sure someone will post it for you)

Oh and some 4:3 TV's have an anamorphic (16:9) mode so can take advantage of this anyway.

If you don't have a TV with this support then your picture may be slightly lower quality but still the same aspect ratio.
ob1rob
23-10-2001, 16:25
IIRC sometimes they use the phrase 'enhanced for 16:9 televisions' as apposed to anamorphic.

EDIT pipped at the post..:D
SloppyJoe
23-10-2001, 16:27
Many thanks
Ginsberg
23-10-2001, 21:19
hmmm...

I think this is the anamorphic guide (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/welcome.html) Kryten means?

Phil
yee_har
25-10-2001, 02:04
I'm still a bit confused on this.

My DVD player is correctly set to 16/9.

What aspect ratio should I be selecting on my Panasonic w/s (28PK3) to get the true benefits of "anamorphic"?

If I have it set to "Panasonic Auto" it stretches even 2.35:1 films vertically to eliminate any black bars and results in a noticeably stretched picture.
Is it as simple as just needing to set the aspect ratio to 16/9 to get the proper benefits?
It certainly looks a lot better like that.

Cheers,
Bapapapa
25-10-2001, 03:09
Dunno what the modes on your TV are called, but on my Sony it's -

WIDE for anamorphic
ZOOM for non-anamorphic

and I use

SMART for regular TV watching. (I don't care if Phil Mitchell looks a little squashed. :p)
yee_har
25-10-2001, 08:49
Modes...seems to vary with source material

IIRC the full set is something like this:

4:3
"Zoom"
16:9
14:9
"Just"
"Panasonic Auto" (which gets replaced with "WIDE" when fed an appropriate signal e.g. Ch4 from Digibox)

I just assumed that "Panasonic Auto" would be the correct setting for an anamorphic input but it seems that 16:9 is, i.e. black bars, "looks right" on 2.35:1 material.
garryi
26-10-2001, 23:57
Originally posted by yee_har
I'm still a bit confused on this.

My DVD player is correctly set to 16/9.

What aspect ratio should I be selecting on my Panasonic w/s (28PK3) to get the true benefits of "anamorphic"?

If I have it set to "Panasonic Auto" it stretches even 2.35:1 films vertically to eliminate any black bars and results in a noticeably stretched picture.
Is it as simple as just needing to set the aspect ratio to 16/9 to get the proper benefits?
It certainly looks a lot better like that.

Cheers,

Turn the auto mode off. That is wrong. You are stretching the picture so that people look tall and skinny. On 2.35:1 image, you should see small black bars. I have this mode on my philips w/s TV