Star Trek (Both Original And Next Generation)

[Spottedfeather]

Originally Posted by Maxwell Everett

If you tell your Blu-ray player you have a 4:3 TV, it will show 16:9 content (i.e. Blu-ray) letterboxed with black bars on the top and bottom. Because both of these series have hard coded black pillar bars on the sides of the frame, yes, the show will be framed by black all around. You'd have to tell your Blu-ray player that you have a 16:9 TV and the image will appear stretched vertically. If you have access to a horizontal stretch control, you could then pull the image out to fill the screen.

Widescreen HDTV's are cheap and ubiquitous nowadays... it wouldn't hurt to buy one after you've saved up some money.

I've heard that if you watched the Star Trek original series on a 4:3 tv, it would be in widescreen with black all the way around the picture. The Pinocchio blu-ray is like that. I've also heard that the Next Generation blu-rays will fill a 4:3 tv. That's what I was wondering about because I wasn't sure if it was true or not.

And to everyone telling me not to even bother with blu-ray unless I have a widescreen tv....shut it. Not everyone has the money for a widescreen tv. A lot of us have to make do with the 4:3 tvs we have until they break. I got a blu-ray player because my dvd player wasn't working that well, and I thought why not upgrade for when I can get a widescreen tv. Not having a job makes it difficult to "save up some money."

And before a bunch of swingbags rag on me for that, you should know that I CAN'T get a job. My mother is ill and I'm the only one around to help her out. My dad works and both of my brothers moved out.