[anthonymoody]

Sorry if this is neither new nor interesting news, but up until now all the HD content I'd seen from HBO (via TWC in NYC) was 16:9. I watched Forrest Gump yesterday and it looked somewhere around 2.2 or 2.35:1. Picture was very nice.


TM

 

[bb1987]

and audio was not 5.1 and it was an old transfer.


bb

 

[Wesley Hester]

There seems to always be a trade off. However, the Pro-Logic II on my receiver did a pretty good job on it.

 

[feldon23]

It was transferred to HD before HBO execs had the bright idea of butchering films.


HDTV appeals to well-educated people with disposable cash. These people are not likely to be ignorant of the raison-de-etre of original aspect ratio.


HBO hosted an outdoor party a few months ago where Roger Ebert was a guest. He was horrified to note that HBO was playing a movie from the 1940's, whose Original Aspect Ratio was 4:3. HBO had cropped off the top and bottom to 16:9. This company deserves our money? I think not.


HBO does not know their audience.

 

[Timwit]

[I tried this question on the other HBO OAR thread, but to no avail...]


There was an internet petition a while back for HBO concerning OAR: What ever happened with that? Was it sent to HBO? Did HBO respond?


Thank you

-Tim