Why widescreen movies show margins even on HDTVs?

[bcrier]

I am a novice and a very basic question. I thought that with a HDTV set to 16:9, any widescreen movie (on bluray) will occupy the entire diaplay. But no. All widescreen movies still show margins on top and bottom (I have Samsung LN52A750 and Sony BDP-S300).

What am i missing? And if this is how it issupposed to be, then am I not wasting money by buying a larger screen TV if the movies are not going to use all of it?

Thank you.

Bobby

[rragland]

Originally Posted by bcrier

I am a novice and a very basic question. I thought that with a HDTV set to 16:9, any widescreen movie (on bluray) will occupy the entire diaplay. But no. All widescreen movies still show margins on top and bottom (I have Samsung LN52A750 and Sony BDP-S300).

What am i missing? And if this is how it issupposed to be, then am I not wasting money by buying a larger screen TV if the movies are not going to use all of it?

Thank you.

Bobby

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/764

[sfmarine]

In simple terms...it all depends on how the director filmed the film. Take Spielberg for instance. He filmed Jurassic Park in 1:85 ratio...on a regular standard tv resolution 480...it will have bars. On a 16:9 it will take up the entire screen. Of course it isn't out yet on Blu but that's what we'll get whenever that time will be.

Jaws was filmed in 2:35 so you'll see the bars.

Why do they do that? Preference...I heard he wanted Jaws in 2:35 to get a wide shot of how big the ocean was...JP - 1:85 so the dinosaurs looked bigger.

[AKBlu]

Great article

[X-Ninja]

Originally Posted by rragland

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/764

Yup...

Still though, Black bars will be here forever.. but i really couldn't care less. Once you start the movie, you dont even notice the things. And the argument about "I paid for <x> inces of a TV, and i wanna use all of them!" is pretty flawed. If you really hate it that much, then stretch the image and maxe it terrible and un-watchable. And if you dont want to do that, then... Deal with it. It aint going away. Ever,

of corse, you could always get an HD projector and just project it onto whatever you're prjecting it on SLIGHTLY larger to kind of rule out the "black bars being there" cocept...