I'm not sure exactly what you meant to get across, but it *seems* to be a diss at the idea of CIH - basing this in the idea that a theatrical presentation and home presentation are different animals, and treated so by the studios, and that somehow this entails that...what?...CIH systems don't make sense or something?
Of course content providers have chosen to format scope and flat ARs to fit the width of a 16:9 AR. That makes sense given this is the default AR of all HD displays.
But that says nothing about whether one can re-cover a theatrical-like presentation of those movies at home. And then it comes down to which type of theatrical presentation one favors. CIH folks tend to favor the traditional
presentation where scope was shown larger/wider than flat AR - and there are great ways to re-create this aspect of presentation at home in terrific quality. So I'm not sure what your point is on this (?).
Could you clarify?
the movie is adjusted for maximum playback on your TV etc, becoming CIW and other than theater audio track. So you get to see the movie in the same format you saw at the theatre, just with black bars top and bottom.
Which is
not how one sees the movies in CIH commercial theaters - the ones preferred by people here! In a commercial CIH theater, the scope format is shown wider than the Flat AR, and without any black bars. People here prefer that presentation, and re-create it at home.
It's not like the Studios simply want everyone to see scope movies as tinier images than Flat, and with black bars! TV manufacturers and Studios can't have been overjoyed to see so many complaints over the years about "those damned black bars!" But the fact is, they have had to produce the content within the limitations of a fixed HD TV AR format, and know they will face even more outrage if they try the pan-and-scan stuff again, or severely cropping images. Fortunately, a projection set up can get around such limitations, and surely no studio is saying "No, don't do that! No re-creating the theatrical style presentation if you can. Not acceptable!"
If your watching in a completely dark room, i hope you are, then you do not even see the black bars. If you do see the black bars, you have not adjusted your TV properly or need a new one.
Why would you wish to council us with such misinformation? Remember, this is a projection-based forum. No currently existing digital projection can do perfect "light off" black. All produce "black bars" that are visibly brighter than true black - easily perceptible as compared with the black velvet borders of most screens, not to mention blacked out rooms. Have you ever heard of "masking" and why it is used in projection, both home and theatrical?
I'm watching in close to an "ideal" room for projection: blacked out with velvet, back wall, side walls, floor, ceiling.
This reduces the light reflection back to the screen and hence minimizes as much as possible the "wash out effect" where light reflected back to the screen raises black levels. I'm using the JVC RS57 projector, with it's Dynamic Iris on, which has been professionally calibrated. I am currently seeing the darkest black levels pretty much any projector will produce (- darker than all but an elite few flat panels could match, with the black levels measured by my calibrator as comparable to the Pioneer Kuro plasmas).
The elevated light levels of the projected black bars are still clear to see (unfortunately). That's why I, and others, still employ masking systems to cover those "not really black bars" and make it truly pitch black around the scope image. All you'd need to see is a scope movie projected on this set up with the masking moved in and out, to cure you of the notion that one "does not even see" black bars on a well calibrated, high quality display.