720
the back of the player).
Talking To The TV
· 1.78:1 LBX or PS (viewer can select
widescreen switching to work, everything
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Any producer or owner of widescreen
to commit to anamorphic enhancement
boxed to 1.33:1, not 1.78:1. Check the
Anamorphic DVD
For improved performance in a widescreen
home theatre environment, the player can
Paramount do the next best job of providing
widescreen equipment.
the same size as if the video had been letter-
You can usually tell that a DVD contains
WIDESCREEN REVIEW NEWSLETTER 28
television standards will eventually push old
ed averaging to combine lines (scaling 4 lines
If everything is working right, and the TV
1. Connect the DVD player to the wide-
friends and family if they've been putting on
weighted filter
Today And Tomorrow
pan-and-scan on 1.33:1 TV)
the entire concept. In a very strange twist,
don't. The anamorphic video is then shown
using a letterbox filter that combines every 4
above and below the "burned in" mattes to
at www.widescreenreview.com to be sure.
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In order to fit this shorter rectangle, the
the on-screen setup feature or a switch on
has promised that it soon will.
pensive studio equipment before it's stored
480 (576)
a 1.33:1 aspect ratio in order to gain a
must be set up properly:
· 1.78:1 PS only (player not allowed to
3. Set the DVD player to 16:9 output (using
unchanged, causing everything and every-
of full anamorphic resolution, but a major
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carried on SCART pin 8, or added as a 5V
shortchanging current and future owners of
anamorphic formatting works and how it
restricted by the producer of the disc. Pro-
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(S-video) connection. In order for automatic
on the disc, or it can be stored in anamor-
phic form and letterboxed to 1.33:1 by the
miniscule improvement in video quality is
ing widescreen movies this way, and it does
from 480 scan lines to 360 (see Figure 3). In
Review or the DVDiscography on the "Find
20th Century Fox sporadically recognize the
major misstep by not releasing an anamor-
In automatic letterbox mode, the player
enhances the already amazing digital pic-
the picture quality of the studio version might
Widescreen
(Buena Vista) seems shamefully oblivious of
360 (432)
tom of the display picture (60 lines each for
drawback is that it can distort your percep-
boxed directly for 1.33:1. The vertical squeez-
tion of reality and cause you to ask your
lescence. Putting anamorphic video on a
screen TV with an S-video or SCART cable,
expanded signal to widescreen TV)
player. If you compared the two, the letter-
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box mattes would be identical in size, but
ing of the letterbox filter in the player exactly
anamorphic source
anamorphic titles, but Paramount made a
ing of the anamorphic process so that the
60 (72)
ture quality of DVD. New widescreen digital
future has already begun.
NTSC, 72 for PAL). This leaves 3/4 of the
generates black bars at the top and the bot-
can either be letterboxed to 1.33:1 on ex-
it says is "widescreen," it may be letter-
compensates for the original horizontal squeez-
one in the picture to look tall and skinny. Some
lines into 3, reducing the vertical resolution
morphic form and should be stretched hori-
cases where wider film content was letter-
seamlessly create thicker mattes that are
ing, it will automatically switch modes to
Criterion, the original champion of widescreen
blanking area (European WSS standard),
phic widescreen," or something similar. If all
skinny TVs into the dusty museums of obso-
"enhanced for 16:9 widescreen," "anamor-
pan-and-scan or letterbox on 1.33:1 TV)
letterbox.
FROM
Titanic. Universal, MGM, and
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grams can be marked for the following dis-
Figure 3
rectangle, which just happens to be 1.78:1.
It's worth noting that a widescreen movie
switch the TV to show the S-video input
boxed to 1.78:1 before being encoded for
anamorphic video if the packaging says
into 3 or merging the boundary lines) rather
DVD format, but rather a deficiency of today's
than simply dropping one out of every four
2. Set the TV to automatic or normal (not
letterboxed LaserDiscs, has not yet released
9/15/08
The Archives
phic version of
an anamorphic DVD, although the company
be slightly better. This is not a defect of the
DVDiscography section in
ter letterbox filters than others, using weight-
whenever possible. New Line, Warner, and
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display
DreamWorks SKG are the only major studios
Widescreen Review readers understand, the
· 1.78:1 LBX only (player not allowed to
in its full width. Some DVD players have bet-
importance of anamorphic, while Disney
content who cares about preserving high
· 1.33:1 full frame
letterbox on 1.33:1 TV)
60 (72)
480 (576)
players. Any studio that letterboxes video to
disc today makes it future proof. And as
height remaining, creating a shorter but wider
Playback of widescreen material can be
WSRnewsletter28.qxp:#88 Reber HD Wars v3GRTL
match the format of the video.
It Movies" "Ographies" section of the Webzine
people claim they have gotten used to watch-
DVD, the mattes generated by the player sit
movie is shown in its proper proportions and
weight. That leaves the second option, auto
display that the incoming video is in ana-
DC component on the chroma line of the Y/C
is equipped to recognize widescreen signal-
play modes:
As of mid-1999, Columbia TriStar and
quality on DVD needs to understand how
allow standard TV owners to take advantage
send a special signal to tell the widescreen
anamorphic picture is squeezed vertically
zontally. The signal is embedded in the video
· 1.33:1 LBX (for sending letterbox
theatre, expand, or similar modes)
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