Blu-Ray serious question?

Question

They say Blu-Ray is supposed to be 1080P.

That means 1920 X 1080.

But, all of my movies arent full screen.

There are 2 big fat black lines, one on top and one on the bottom.

My question is - why dont they release blu-rays in fullscreen?

Answer 1

sjburke73 is pretty much bang on with this question. I'll add that the reason why the TV's are not wider to eliminate the black bars is because 16:9 is the HDTV standard. All HD channels are supposed to have their picture in that width to height ratio. The old standard was 4:3.

If you have a projector capable of "Constant Image Height" and an anamorphic lens on the projector you can use a 2.35:1 or 1.85:1 screen and eliminate the black bars on the bottom. Of course then when viewing 16:9 aspect ratio material you would have black bars on the sides.

Some screens have masking systems that extend or retract the borders of the screen to remove the black bars.

Answer 2

Full Screen for 1080p televisions is 16:9, or 1.78:1 aspect ratio.

There are numerous Blu-ray Disc releases that will fill your television set, but there are also others which are 2.35:1 to 2.40:1 which are the ones that will give you the bigger black bars on the top and the bottom. This isn't some kind of error, it's the original aspect ratio (OAR) that the film was shot in. If they were to change these movies to be 1.78:1 you would be losing out on over 20% of what the director intended you to see.

Most people prefer that the studios leave the movies in the OAR - they want to see the director's original vision.

There are also plenty of releases with 1.85:1 aspect ratio, which are much closer to 1.78:1 and as such will only show a minuscule area of black bar at the top and the bottom.

Here is some excellent reading on the topic - http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?...

Answer 3

Sounds like the original aspect ratio of the movie. You are actually seeing more movie if you have black lines across the top and bottom.

To get rid of the lines you would have two options:

1) Stretch the viewing area to get rid of the black bars which will distort the pictur.

2) Zoom in to cut off the left and right sections of the film in order to fill the entire screen which will sacrifice 20 to 30% of the movie as the two sides will be off screen

Answer 4

there are two reasons and that depends what tv u have or also because the hd acually shows better when its widesrceen



my tv is a sony xbr x seiries 48 inch (1080i) and mine allows me to change mine into fullscreen but to tell u the truth it looks worse