Certainly this “wide screen” format was a big change compared to television from the last century (wow, that sounds old). The difference is that the width of a full HDTV image is actually only 1.78 times its height.
HDTVs (both flat panels and projectors) also produce an image with the shape of a rectangle. In just a few years since most streaming content went to the 2.2:1 format and today more and more content is being created in the full 2.4:1 cinema format – the same as movies! In about 2015 Netflix started creating content in the 2.0:1 format to be different from TV. But rather than getting lost in the numbers, we simply use the phrase “cinema format” for any movie with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 or above. Want more details? Wikipedia has a thorough summary here. Unfortunately, the original expression of “2.35:1” is still often used to this day, even though the actual aspect ratio of most movies rounds up to 2.4:1. For some standardizing and technical reasons, this preferred aspect ratio evolved to 2.39:1 for most movies after about 1970. About sixty years ago, Hollywood settled on the idea that a movie with a width about 2.35 times its height, written as an aspect ratio of “2.35:1”, delivered the best experience for most content when shown on the big screen of commercial theaters. Well, every rectangle has its own ratio of width to height, generally called an “aspect ratio”. Most movies just weren’t made to fit them. The fact is, TVs aren’t set up wrong at all.
Someday I’ll have to find out about this stuff. Sure, the sides of the movie are cut off but at least the bars are gone and, hey, bonus – the movie actually looks bigger. I can zoom out the image to get rid of the black bars. At least that’s what my mother-in-law always says. Cycle through the remote buttons – the TV must be set up wrong. The TV is showing these black bars above and below the image. We load up any of the mega hits like Titanic, Star Wars, Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings on our big screen TV and settle in to be transported to another world – another time and place. Black Bars? Why Don’t Movies Fit on my 16:9 TV or Screen?
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