Aspect Ratio Issue on my New System - Blu-ray Forum

PUsokrJosh305 · 12-07-2020, 07:53 PM

I think I know where you are coming from in terms of how you viewed things in the past. Your parents's 4:3 setting is like what it would be if you are watching things on a 4:3 display like an old CRT Tube TV. This is similar to my projector screen I have in the school I work at. It's a 4:3 projector screen but the computers I have used are 16:9.

Before this year, I used my personal computer hooked up to an HDMI Cable to present information to my students (the school given desktop did not have the right cable to make the information clear aka it was fuzzy). I formatted the screen so it should the image in a 4:3 aspect ratio. Anyways, during the Holidays I like to play A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Christmas in class. My laptop had a blu-ray player so I figured I would play the blu-ray version of the tv classics. When I played it, it actually had the bars on the sides and bottom since it was a 4:3 screen. The reason why it did that is because although the show was in 4:3, it was full encoded on the disk as 16:9 because that is the normal TV aspect ratio anymore. Now when I popped the DVD in, it formatted itself to my 4:3 screen and filled the entire screen like it should.

From what I can tell, blu-ray and 4K movies that are 4:3 are actually encoded as 16:9 so when watching anything blu-ray or 4K, the player usually assumes it's in 16:9. As to DVD's, they can range depending on the movie.

12-07-2020, 07:53 PM	#11
PUsokrJosh305 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2009 Home Theater Gallery:8 4K collection:134 Blu-ray collection:513 DVD collection:16	I think I know where you are coming from in terms of how you viewed things in the past. Your parents's 4:3 setting is like what it would be if you are watching things on a 4:3 display like an old CRT Tube TV. This is similar to my projector screen I have in the school I work at. It's a 4:3 projector screen but the computers I have used are 16:9. Before this year, I used my personal computer hooked up to an HDMI Cable to present information to my students (the school given desktop did not have the right cable to make the information clear aka it was fuzzy). I formatted the screen so it should the image in a 4:3 aspect ratio. Anyways, during the Holidays I like to play A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Christmas in class. My laptop had a blu-ray player so I figured I would play the blu-ray version of the tv classics. When I played it, it actually had the bars on the sides and bottom since it was a 4:3 screen. The reason why it did that is because although the show was in 4:3, it was full encoded on the disk as 16:9 because that is the normal TV aspect ratio anymore. Now when I popped the DVD in, it formatted itself to my 4:3 screen and filled the entire screen like it should. From what I can tell, blu-ray and 4K movies that are 4:3 are actually encoded as 16:9 so when watching anything blu-ray or 4K, the player usually assumes it's in 16:9. As to DVD's, they can range depending on the movie.

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