If I recall correctly the DVD release of Terminator 2 (the PAL version, at least) had less picture removed from the top and bottom of the frame than the Bluray version, which had a wider aspect ratio (probably the same as the cinema version). There's probably more of a tendency to change the aspect ratio of movies for DVD release (cropping the sides, increasing the height of the video, maybe even using pan and scan ()) whereas for Bluray using the maximum number of available pixels for quality isn't so much of an issue, and DVDs would mostly have been viewed on smaller screens (CRT TVs) for quite a while, so a larger picture area might be more attractive for that reason. Wider aspect ratios on DVDs with black bars top and bottom are pretty common.
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Maybe some DVDs actually store black bars, but mostly it's a full frame in 720x480 or 720x576 stretched horizontally for display. In my view it's better to keep the PAR 1:1, because this is the natural thing. With the same number of pixels, some recordings look like HDTV (like my MiniDV shootings) and others look like youtube (in the past). Also AFAIK Titanic was shown in pure 16:9 on German PayTV premium.Īnd for the last issue - it doesn't matter the number of pixels, but the optical resolution. The poor excuse that "one could see the props" (eg mikes) doesn't hold. I've even found 16:9 movies in fullscreen (4:3) in underdevelopped countries, id est showing details not visible on their western counterparts. Some used anamorphic lenses, but this is rare as it involved costly distribution.
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The ridiculous part is that the movie is shot 4:3 and the frame is cut (or matted) to fit the "artistic vision". When the TVs went 16:9 they already anticipated it (as they sat also in the standardisation boards) and went 2.35 or 2.4:1. They "invented" widescreen principially to get an incentive of people to go in theatres instead of watching the same movie on television. It is as that because the movie industry wanted this way. If not anamorphic, using a lower vertical resolution would save some bits and avoid the hard edges to black. DVD's anamorphic used at least all pixels.
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