[PoorSignal]

I am new to this, first of all say you have a 92" screen, or large 4:3 screen etc. but the limitation of the room or projector only can project 80" wide screen image, what happens? the movie is smaller than the screen. Is that quite so bad? will the light bounce off the edges and glow because I don't have a black bar on the edges of the screen? Beside the asthetics.. but when the lights are off, any difference?


Also.. assuming I get better fitted screen size, the projectors are 1920x1080 native, that's 1.78 or 16:9.. but most movies are in 1.85 ratio What happens to the image? Do I get a 1.85 screen or 1.78 screen?


I don't know what the HDTV does, but they are 16:9 also. the movie is stretched from 1.85 into 1.78 right?

 

[FLBoy]

I'll try to explain this without going into unnecessary detail.


Most modern home theater projectors are 1.78:1. Most people buy a screen with a matching 1.78:1 AR. If you watch 1.85:1 (widescreen) movies on a 1.78:1 screen, there will be tiny, almost unnoticeable black bars above and below the image. You can get rid of the black bars by zooming the image slightly larger. This will, of course, crop a tiny bit of the right and left sides of the image.


If you watch a 2.35:1 'scope movie on a 1.78:1 screen, there will be much larger black bars above and below the image. You could zoom those black bars out of the picture as well, but you would loose a significant portion of the right and left sides of the image. For this reason, most folks leave the black bars on screen and project the movie in the 2.35:1 AR, as the director intended. Viewed this way, 'scope movies will be smaller than widescreen movies and HDTV.


Alternatively, if you watch mostly 2.35:1 movies, you may want them to be the largest and grandest of your presentations. If so, you can buy a 2.35:1 screen, and you can zoom your 'scope movies to fill the screen. Narrower formats, such as 1.85 and 1.78 will have to be zoomed down to fit the screen height. They will then have black "pillar boxes" on either side of the image, making them smaller than 'scope movies.


As they say, you pays yo money, and you takes yo choice.

 

[Craig Peer]



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As they say, you pays yo money, and you takes yo choice.

Or, you can get a 1.78:1 screen and a 2.35:1 screen for a no compromise solution !!

http://gallery.avsforum.com/showgall...ppuser/7419278

 

[jamis]



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Originally Posted by Craig Peer /forum/post/16877074


Or, you can get a 1.78:1 screen and a 2.35:1 screen for a no compromise solution !!

http://gallery.avsforum.com/showgall...ppuser/7419278

Or even easier, just get a 2.35:1 screen and live with the black bars on the left and right when viewing 16:9 material (or mask them) and zoom to fill the screen on the 2.35 stuff.

 

[Jason Turk]



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Originally Posted by PoorSignal /forum/post/16875627


I am new to this, first of all say you have a 92" screen, or large 4:3 screen etc. but the limitation of the room or projector only can project 80" wide screen image, what happens? the movie is smaller than the screen. Is that quite so bad? will the light bounce off the edges and glow because I don't have a black bar on the edges of the screen? Beside the asthetics.. but when the lights are off, any difference?


Also.. assuming I get better fitted screen size, the projectors are 1920x1080 native, that's 1.78 or 16:9.. but most movies are in 1.85 ratio What happens to the image? Do I get a 1.85 screen or 1.78 screen?


I don't know what the HDTV does, but they are 16:9 also. the movie is stretched from 1.85 into 1.78 right?

If you are limited by width, and it is a smaller width as you mention, assuming you are getting a 16:9 screen I would stick with 16:9. 2.35:1 of the same width will effectively be the same size as if you make the screen 16:9 (45"x80" 16:9 = 34"x80" 2.35:1). However, if you just get a 2.35:1 of this size, you are forcing your 16:9 to be even smaller (34"x60.5" 16:9). Essentially it doesn't make a whole lotta sense, especially considering 2.35:1 generally is a more costly undertaking.