On 12/26/23 14:37, Kieran O Leary wrote:
Hi
On Tue 26 Dec 2023 at 17:25, Carl Zwanzig <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/25/2023 1:04 AM, Mark Filipak wrote:
Huh? "720x480 video with a display aspect ratio of 16:9" is what's on
most
'NTSC' DVDs.
Huh? The vast majority of DVDs I've handled were 4:3 then maybe
letterboxed
to only show some wide-screen size (like 2.33:1).
This is the opposite of my experience where widescreen DVDs were encoded
anamorphically and were de-squeezed to the correct DAR. Very few were 4:3
with burnt in letterboxes.
Best,
Kieran
The pre-2000/2001 DVDs labeled "Wide Screen" were letterboxed 4:3 DVDs that are also pillarboxed on
16:9 screens. I still have a couple of them. DVDs are not optically anamorphic in the sense that
CinemaScope is anamorphic. They were simply sampled with the highest resolution available to
flying-spot scanners of the era. I don't think the word "anamorphic" applies because 720x480 (or
720x576) are not pictures, they're data arrays populated by pixels (data).
-- Mark.
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