Any anamorhpic widescreen BD Titles?

[bogo5]

Can they encode a 2.35:1 BD movie to anamorphic widescreen for PC playback. So that it fits in the 16:9 format, but the vertical pixels is 1080 not 820.


Just curious.

[brewp13]

If anamorphic widescreen means it fits the screen, then Friday the 13th is in anamorphic widescreen and ive seen several others I just cant think of them right now.

[bogo5]

I'm talking minus the black bars that make up the 16x9. Just the actual 2.35:1 movie. Because all BD movies are square pixel aspect ratio.

Wouldn't the quality be better anyway, like with anamorphic widescreen DVDs?

[RiseDarthVader]

You cant make a 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 movie magically turn into 1.85:1 or 1.78:1. The only way to do this is to crop out part of the original image or stretch it. I'm suprprised bogo5 that this has been explained several times and your an active member yet you still wanna get rid of the "black bars". Just turn off the lights or get something to block off the bottom and top of your screens if you have a LCD with bad black levels.

[Blaumann]

Originally Posted by bogo5

I'm talking minus the black bars that make up the 16x9. Just the actual 2.35:1 movie. Because all BD movies are square pixel aspect ratio.

Wouldn't the quality be better anyway, like with anamorphic widescreen DVDs?

This would start to make sense (again), if the majority of people had 2.4:1 HDTVs and the media had to be stored on a 16:9 format. The current 16:9 displays simply wouldn't have an advantage with such a way to encode the video. For 2.4:1 films and keeping the oar, best case would be the pq is the same as it is now. Due to the additionally needed scaling to add the black bars by the TV to maintain oar, chances are it might even degrade the pq.

Right now only front projection setups with an anamorphic lense could theoretically benefit from this concept. Compared to the mass market, they are a microscopic minority though. Wouldn't make sense to cater to them, esp. if it means potentially worse pq for the vast majority.

[Chevypower]

They could make an anamorphic widescreen keeping the 1080x1920 resolution, stretch the pixels horizontally by 1.34 to get 2.40:1. This would use the same method as standard definition widescreen, which retains the 480x720 NTSC and 576x720 PAL, which is exactly the same as the 4:3 versions. I don't think it is going to happen though.