2.40.1 ratio

[nhaase]

"Smaller" is an odd word to use. Yes, the bars are bigger, but the actual height of the picture is the same, if you get my drift. It's like switching from an SDTV football game feed to the same game on HDTV. The wider screen doesn't chop anything off, it just adds more to the left and right ends.

[3Dfan]

Originally Posted by nhaase

"Smaller" is an odd word to use. Yes, the bars are bigger, but the actual height of the picture is the same, if you get my drift. It's like switching from an SDTV football game feed to the same game on HDTV. The wider screen doesn't chop anything off, it just adds more to the left and right ends.

Actually, I noticed the movie theaters in my area, both the digital theatres and the analog theatres use black bars at the top and bottom of the 2.35 movies.

While none are on the 1.85 movies.

[vsoba]

Originally Posted by 3Dfan

Actually, I noticed the movie theaters in my area, both the digital theatres and the analog theatres use black bars at the top and bottom of the 2.35 movies.

While none are on the 1.85 movies.

Actually, movie theaters use both 2.40:1 (Constant Height) and 1.85:1 (Constant Width) screens, depending on the auditorium. Constant Height auditoriums use masking on the sides, and Constant Width auditoriums use masking on the top and bottom.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by vsoba

Actually, movie theaters use both 2.40:1 (Constant Height) and 1.85:1 (Constant Width) screens, depending on the auditorium. Constant Height auditoriums use masking on the sides, and Constant Width auditoriums use masking on the top and bottom.

I must say I much more approve of Constant Height screens - here in the DC area the only specialty large screen that does this is Bow Tie Reston's BTX screen

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

I must say I much more approve of Constant Height screens - here in the DC area the only specialty large screen that does this is Bow Tie Reston's BTX screen

My Cinemark theater uses Constant Height for all the regular auditoriums except the XD theater, which is the biggest screen. They use masking in the regular screens for movies in 1.85:1.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

My Cinemark theater uses Constant Height for all the regular auditoriums except the XD theater, which is the biggest screen. They use masking in the regular screens for movies in 1.85:1.

I wonder why that is - of the newer theaters I've been to - theater planners/architect have the screens tend to take up more of the entire wall: floor to ceiling, wall to wall thus when a 'scope film' is projected, the screen diminishes vertically.

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

I wonder why that is - of the newer theaters I've been to - theater planners/architect have the screens tend to take up more of the entire wall: floor to ceiling, wall to wall thus when a 'scope film' is projected, the screen diminishes vertically.

Well, the XD screen does go wall to wall, and floor to ceiling. When they play a movie in scope, you can kind of make out the bars. But the regular screens aren't that big.

[yellowcakeuf6]

Originally Posted by nhaase

"Smaller" is an odd word to use. Yes, the bars are bigger, but the actual height of the picture is the same, if you get my drift. It's like switching from an SDTV football game feed to the same game on HDTV. The wider screen doesn't chop anything off, it just adds more to the left and right ends.

The picture area is smaller on an HDTV. The only way it would be the same size effectively, except wider, would be on a constant image height screen.

[Sky_Captain]

Jesus, the cobwebs on this thread...

[MisterXDTV]

The SMPTE standard for anamorphic scope has been 2.39:1 since October 1970 and it was confirmed in 1993, it gets rounded to 2.40:1 for convenience....

[threefiftyrocket]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

Jesus, the cobwebs on this thread...

Yeah, talk about necro threads... 7 years... whew