Star Trek : Original Series Question

[lv426]

Has anybody heard how this title will be encoded.

I've heard it will be 4:3 format, but will it be encoded 1920x1080 or 1440x1080

Ill explain why I ask, with movies I watch in OAR but with 4:3 material I prefer to watch full screen, I can see problem for me if its 1920x1080

[stargazeruk]

I had the HD-DVD version and they encoded the 4x3 picture into a 16x9 frame. It will more and likely be 1920x1080.

[derelicte]

"Star Terk" - is that a new show starring the black character from Scrubs?

Sorry ... couldn't resist...

[lv426]

Originally Posted by stargazeruk

I had the HD-DVD version and they encoded the 4x3 picture into a 16x9 frame. It will more and likely be 1920x1080.

Cheers for the info, I somehow suspected it would be 1920, ah well just have to watch it in its OAR.

Originally Posted by derelicte

"Star Terk" - is that a new show starring the black character from Scrubs?

Sorry ... couldn't resist...

Oops, I normally double check for spelling errors before I summit

[Rik1138]

Originally Posted by lv426

Has anybody heard how this title will be encoded.

I've heard it will be 4:3 format, but will it be encoded 1920x1080 or 1440x1080

Ill explain why I ask, with movies I watch in OAR but with 4:3 material I prefer to watch full screen, I can see problem for me if its 1920x1080

When you say you watch them full-screen, do you stretch them, or do a zoom/crop thing? Regardless, would it matter if the black bars are encoded on the sides? Some TVs can still zoom or stretch to eliminate the bars...

It is encoded 1920x1080 thought... VC-1 video.

Rik

[Kirsty_Mc]

I would imagine that it is encoded at 1920 X 1080, ie. Black pillars with the 4:3 content in the middle. This is how other 4:3 content has been encoded so far on other releases. I think it is the standard.

[lv426]

Originally Posted by Rik1138

When you say you watch them full-screen, do you stretch them, or do a zoom/crop thing? Regardless, would it matter if the black bars are encoded on the sides? Some TVs can still zoom or stretch to eliminate the bars...

Rik

Stretch horizontally so it fits the TV's 16:9 ratio

But I mean, some setting I can do to get this effect via a setting on TV or blu player, I am glad that they are giving us the 4:3 format and not a 1.78:1 cropped image.

[stargazeruk]

Originally Posted by lv426

Stretch horizontally so it fits the TV's 16:9 ratio

But I mean, some setting I can do to get this effect via a setting on TV or blu player, I am glad that they are giving us the 4:3 format and not a 1.78:1 cropped image.

The new CGI effects were done in 16x9 but they did 3 versions
4:3
4:3 live action 16:9 CGI
16:9

I read it was seamless branching. I would prefer the new CGI stuff be 16:9 rather then cropped to 4:3. They cropped all of the CGI to 4:3 for HD-DVD versions which anoyed me but I hope they follow the dark knights example and do shifting ratios.

[Rik1138]

It's not seamless branching, it's just multi-angle... There's a technical difference there. The neat thing is you can switch from old effects to new effects while watching the show. (The switch isn't instant, but it's still kind of cool).

The shows are all 4x3 beginning to end. If the new effects were created in 16x9, they've been cropped. It looks exactly like the HD DVD release from last year.