Field of view, 16:9/21:9

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by syncguy

HDTV took sometime to pickup because the price was not right. Check in a store to see how many people purchasing new TVs everyday. These days people are agile to tech change - it is vastly different to last fifty years. They do not wait until their five year old set dies. They will go for the latest if they like or love it and price is right. It is an easy sell once a scope movie is demonstrated on a 21x9 set.

if that was even remotely true then the digital transition would have been extremely different and digital converter boxes would not be needed. ATSC has existed for ~10 years and in 2005 35"+ TVs had to have an ATSC tuner, if you where right in your assumption that people don't keep a TV for more the 5 years then everyone would have a TV with ATSC tuner.

No need to go into technology analysis. Simple fact is technology evolves around human desires. 21x9 sets will be purchased to watch scope content in the way that they were made to be watched and in the way that people love such content. It is really nuts to propose for people to stampbox scope content on a 21x9 set because content is artificially limited to 16x9 sets by placing subs on blackbars.

god forbid we actually analyse things and make posts that make sense, why let facts get in the way of complete drivel. The answer is BDwon't ever be 21:9 if you are right and one day sets are only 21:9 and can’t show 16:9 something other then BD will need to be used that alowes for 21:9 so who gives a crap what is on BD now. You won't be watching BDs so why bring it into a BD discussion, they could make the appropriate subs then. On the other hand movies where 4:3 and Academy ratio before TV but it was too close to TVs and in order to make them different movies became wider. Who knows, maybe now that TVs are getting wider (16:9 now and you assume 21:9 some day in the future) movies will go the opposite way (that is what Imax did ). One can make any insane assertion under technology evolves. PS where is my flying car and my mal in a pill and space bus to Mars?