Quick PS3 fullscreen question

[blurayistheway]

wondering why my ps3 only plays my blu rays in widescreen display on a 16x9 tv. i want them to be full screen

[JBlacklow]

Originally Posted by blurayistheway

wondering why my ps3 only plays my blu rays in widescreen display on a 16x9 tv. i want them to be full screen

Read this first.

[dentalrep]

Originally Posted by JBlacklow

Read this first.

I hate anamorphic movies. I bought an expensive TV and a Blu-ray player and I can't watch a movie that fills the whole screen without sacrificing the picture. EVERY movie sold should fit a 16x9 screen. I have read all the reasons why but the movies need to be shot with the proper cameras. I always bought full screen DVD's because I cannot stand the black bars.

[shido]

Originally Posted by dentalrep

I hate anamorphic movies. I bought an expensive TV and a Blu-ray player and I can't watch a movie that fills the whole screen without sacrificing the picture. EVERY movie sold should fit a 16x9 screen. I have read all the reasons why but the movies need to be shot with the proper cameras. I always bought full screen DVD's because I cannot stand the black bars.

Well, all I can say is that you should have done some research before you spent the cash. But, it's been this way on widescreen DVDs for years now, so it's not like this is something new. Anyway, can't you just zoom in on your tv to remove the bars? You're gonna have to do that, cause I for one, and quite frankly the vast majority of video enthusiasts, would rather watch a movie in the aspect ratio that the director shot it in, rather than have it cropped in some way. As such, I doubt we'll be seeing different aspect ratio releases of the same movie on Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

[Deciazulado]

Scope ratio movies started being shot in 1952* and there's 55 years of them...

Last time I counted, I counted 3500.

There's probably more..



*(well there were some in the 20's & 30's)

[eli1277]

try the zoom feature on your tv, if that works, or if it has one. doing that though it wont look as good and you will lose picture.

[dentalrep]

Originally Posted by shido

Well, all I can say is that you should have done some research before you spent the cash. But, it's been this way on widescreen DVDs for years now, so it's not like this is something new. Anyway, can't you just zoom in on your tv to remove the bars? You're gonna have to do that, cause I for one, and quite frankly the vast majority of video enthusiasts, would rather watch a movie in the aspect ratio that the director shot it in, rather than have it cropped in some way. As such, I doubt we'll be seeing different aspect ratio releases of the same movie on Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

I can watch a movie on the HD channels that looks great without black bars. I buy the same movie on BD and zoom it it to fill the screen and it does not look as good. I guess I would rather have height than width. It makes me ill to see unused screen space not used that I paid per inch to be able to see.

Regular consumers don't want to see black bars. Enthusiasts want the original aspect. I would pay double for full screen BD movies.

[Deciazulado]

So you have a 1080 x 1920 display that accepts 1080p and you're zooming those 1080p pixels 33% and you say it looks worse than 1080i/720p broadcasts?
800p to 820p pixels on a BD (the height of the Scope images being zoomed) looks oftentimes better than my local theater.

You must therefore be sitting much much closer that 1.5 picture heights, or the zoom is not doing a good job.

Anyway, this dilema will be solved if you get a 2.40 wide system. No more vertical black bars. All the height, width, and resolution.

[dentalrep]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

So you have a 1080 x 1920 display that accepts 1080p and you're zooming those 1080p pixels 33% and you say it looks worse than 1080i/720p broadcasts?
800p to 820p pixels on a BD (the height of the Scope images being zoomed) looks oftentimes better than my local theater.

You must therefore be sitting much much closer that 1.5 picture heights, or the zoom is not doing a good job.

Anyway, this dilema will be solved if you get a 2.40 wide system. No more vertical black bars. All the height, width, and resolution.

I have a recently purchased XBR2 SXRD 60 in Sony TV.

[Deciazulado]

Well I can understand buying a brand new expensive tv and wanting to use all it's real state expecting all movies to fill your screen, but you'll have the same problem "in reverse" watching movies like Casablanca or The Wizard of Oz or all the TV programs made in the 20th century. They won't fill your screen neither. So unless Hollywood starts cropping 25% of the image of probably half the movies ever made in the vertical or horizontal dimensions (depending on the case) and runs double inventory for High Definition discs, you'll have to buy only movies made after the mid fifties that are NOT in Scope ratio, or 21st century HDTV programming.