Do widescreen dvds fill the entire screen...?

Question

it the tv is a widescreen plasma?

Answer 1

Usually yes, but it depends on a couple of things.

A modern flat TV screen, plasma or LCD has an aspect ratio of 16:9.

Movies are commonly filmed with an aspect ratio of between 1.85:1 (standard wide-screen, non-anamorphic) to 2.35:1 (CinemaScope or other anamorphic wide-screen processes such as PanaVision 70 or VistaVision).

When movies are transferred to DVD the difference in aspect ratio is treated in one of three ways.

The one preferred by most movie enthusiasts is called letterboxing. In this method the original picture format and framing is retained and the image is positioned to fill as much of the screen as possible. The remaining, unused area is blanked. For older TV programs and early movies the blanking will be on each side of the image. For wide-screen movies the blanking will be on top or bottom. Often these will be a very small bands and after a few minutes not really noticeable.

In the second method the original image is cropped to fit the TV screen. The disadvantage of this is that part of the image the director and cinematographer carefully composed is lost. In the worst cases this can result in characters being cut off and dialog becoming disembodied.

The third method is a variation. The image is still cropped to fill the TV screen but the frame is panned as the film is scanned to keep essential action and characters in frame as far as possible.



The simple answer is that, yes, wide-screen DVDs will fill your screen -- one way or another.

Answer 2

The plasma widescreen TV's have ( usually ) an aspect ratio of 16:9 . ( that is, for each 16 inches of the width, it is 9 inches high ). Plasma computer screens use an aspect ratio of 16:10 though.



DVD widescreen movies come in different aspect ratios themselves :



- 4:3 , very old movies

effect : it fills just the center, leaving bars to the right/left

- 16:9 , most old movies, and some new ones

effect : it fills the whole screen

- 1:2.35 , most new movies

effect : it fills the middle, leaving bars on the top/bottom



Answer :



It depends! For most new movies, ideal would be a 1:2.35 ( very very wide , it is more than twice as wide as it is high ) screen. Unfortunately they are not being manufactured, so in most cases you will see black bars top/bottom.



Best of luck!

Answer 3

Widescreen movies are formatted to a 16:1 aspect ratio or 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The 16:1 can be fixed with the aspect feature on the tv. The 16:1 are smaller black bars and the 2.35:1 are the bigger ones.Home HD tvs are only designed to view 16:1. 2.35:1 will be seen with smaller black bars. If it bothers you that much try the zoom feature or change the aspect to 4:3 wide! You will loose some of the movie though! Give it a chance though, you will soon get used to it and you will not even notice it once you get into the movie! P.S Some dvd plyers also require an aspect change !!

Answer 4

Yes, if the aspect ratio of the DVD and plasma are the same it will fill the screen

Answer 5

no

movie use a differerent wide screen aspect ratio than HD TV