I got another ignorant person

[kiskiboy97]

Originally Posted by corduroygt

I like 1.85:1 better since I don't believe every friggin scene in a movie should have the "super wide panorama" aspect ratio. I think 2.35:1 is more optimized for theatre experience, since these days the salons are much wider than they are tall, while 1.85:1 is for home video and 16:9 TV's.

Are there any 2.35:1 movies that are "pan and scaned" to 1.85:1?

Just watch HBO/Cinemax in HD. They crop pretty much anything and everything, though Max did show Empire Strikes Back properly yesterday, to their credit. I don't know how many movies I have recorded off those stations on my DVR and deleted them 30 seconds after starting it because they are not in their OAR. I'm so fed up with it I'm getting rid of those channels. Die Hard, for example, was not meant to fill up my TV, and unless a TV is released in that AR, it never will. I want "black bars" when I watch it.