1:85.1 movie has borders on the sides

[Stu123]

Originally Posted by Afrobean

If they opened it to 1.66:1, a common aspect ratio in Europe. It's a little taller than 1.78:1 (meaning it's a little less wide), which may account for some slight pillarboxing on a film which was released as 1.85:1 in the States (when 1.85:1 would normally have slight letterboxing).

I haven't seen this particular release though, so I don't know what's going on there. I'd wager on it being just a case of them trying to protect the image from TVs that overscan. It's not that uncommon, and it's funny too, because the light pillarboxing/letterboxing from 1.66:1/1.85:1 films are cut away by overscanning. Still stupid for modern TVs to overscan though. Terrible vestigial "feature".

Yes it's a terrible error from the tv makers that alot of people are missing alot of the image because of overscanning.My tv is samsungs first full HD TV and the overscanning is really bad its about 4cm on all sides.Luckily i bought the relevant leads to link the tv up to my laptop and updated the firmware giving a pixel by pixel option setting so if i choose that at least i know im getting exactly what im meant to be getting even if i do have side bars on this particular movie.I'm just not used to having the bars at the sides ive never seen it before apart from screenshots i have of Jason and the Argonauts.It says in the blu-ray.com review of that movie though "a gorgeous 1080p, 1.66:1-framed transfer that places small vertical black bars on either side of the 1.78:1 display" but scooby doo is 1.85:1