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odean73
just need the Mrs to go out for an hour or so Haha
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odean73
just need the Mrs to go out for an hour or so Haha
Easy, give her your creditcard and tell her she can go shopping
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flacnvinyl
@odean73, your bluray player is fine n dandy. Sweet Summer Sun was filmed in cinematic resolution 1.77:1, instead of 16:9. For anyone curious about that aspect ratio just watch the trailer on a standard 16:9 widescreen display and you'll see the black bars across the top and bottom...
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flacnvinyl
@odean73, your bluray player is fine n dandy. Sweet Summer Sun was filmed in cinematic resolution 1.77:1, instead of 16:9. For anyone curious about that aspect ratio just watch the trailer on a standard 16:9 widescreen display and you'll see the black bars across the top and bottom...
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I don't know if you are referring to my post or not but,my point was that some Blu-ray players are better than others at getting rid of the black bars to fill the 16 : 9 screen with minimal cropping , resolution reduction and distortion of the image .
Since he dislikes the black bars,his Blu-ray player may or may not be fine n dandy . He hasn't stated which one he is using.
Some machines offer no zoom control at all,some offer limited zoom modes which horribly crop and distort the image,and others offer fine control over the degree of zoom with multiple zoom modes.
Anyway,not to be a wise guy but 1:77:1 EQUALS 16:9 .
The information that I could find on the "Sweet Summer Sun" Blu-ray disc release states that it was filmed as 2:39:1 and then converted to 2:35:1 for the Blu-ray release .
The cinematic aspect ratios are 2:39:1 and 2:40:1 as well as 2:35:1 and 1:85:1 .
Any of the four cinematic aspect ratios listed above will produce black bars when displayed natively on a 16:9 screen. The way to avoid this is to use the zoom modes of the Blu-ray player if it has any at all. The Blu-ray players that I mentioned in my above post will do a better job of this than any of the television's zoom modes (sometimes called picture size or aspect adjust modes) .
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flacnvinyl
As someone who produces video for a living, I am a fan of watching movies in the original intended format, including cinematic ratios which cause black bars on 16:9 screens. There is nothing more terrible than TNT or any other tv station taking wide screen content and zooming/cropping (pan n scan) and thus removing all the information on the sides of the screen!
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odean73
Once again thanks for all the info.
My blue ray player is a Samsung, I cant see any zoom buttons on the remote, but thinking about this I will give it a try on my other dvd player and see what happens.
At this moment of time I am thinking its best just to get a normal dvd and play it on the blue ray machine and this is after ordering the Hampton 81 on blue ray.
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flacnvinyl
@odean73, your bluray player is fine n dandy. Sweet Summer Sun was filmed in cinematic resolution 2:39:1, instead of 16:9. For anyone curious about that aspect ratio just watch the trailer on a standard 16:9 widescreen display and you'll see the black bars across the top and bottom...
There was a debate a while back about that resolution among industry trendsetters and everyone agreed to NOT make it the standard. Our TVs would end up being super wide and it would only benefit a few particular movies/projects, like Sweet Summer Sun.
Unfortunately SSS is filmed in a hyper-cinematic resolution but edited like a 12-year-old kid who can't pay attention to anything for more than 1 second.
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odean73
Once again thanks for all the info.
My blue ray player is a Samsung, I cant see any zoom buttons on the remote, but thinking about this I will give it a try on my other dvd player and see what happens.
At this moment of time I am thinking its best just to get a normal dvd and play it on the blue ray machine and this is after ordering the Hampton 81 on blue ray.
Don't forget that sound quality may also be a consideration. For the extra money I feel that it's better to get the Blu Ray.
My complaint is that I've ordered the vinyl edition that comes packaged with the DVD, NOT Blu Ray!
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Tried the normal dvd player for the blue ray and its not accepting it, the bad disk comes up i take this is normal?
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crholmstrom
Unfortunately SSS is filmed in a hyper-cinematic resolution but edited like a 12-year-old kid who can't pay attention to anything for more than 1 second.
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odean73
Tried the normal dvd player for the blue ray and its not accepting it, the bad disk comes up i take this is normal?
Yes, this is absolutely normal.
A DVD-Player cannot play a Blu-ray Disc. On the other hand, Blu-ray Player are mostly downwards compatible and can also play DVDs and CDs.