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Philips introduces 21:9 tv
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So, Philips have a 2.39:1 tv out! It looks like this:
Quite interesting. For those of you that aren't familiar with screen dimensions: 2.39:1 (or 21:9) are the dimensions in which most (blockbuster) movies are shot and shown nowadays. It's wider than 16:9, which are the standard widescreen dimensions. Your widescreen tv is 16:9.
So, what do you think? Too soon? I can't see anyone but very rich cinema enthusiasts buy this. Nothing on tv is 21:9, and 4:3 will look very very tiny.
Thoughts?
Quite interesting. For those of you that aren't familiar with screen dimensions: 2.39:1 (or 21:9) are the dimensions in which most (blockbuster) movies are shot and shown nowadays. It's wider than 16:9, which are the standard widescreen dimensions. Your widescreen tv is 16:9.
So, what do you think? Too soon? I can't see anyone but very rich cinema enthusiasts buy this. Nothing on tv is 21:9, and 4:3 will look very very tiny.
Thoughts?
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Just saying, while it's nice that they're making bigger and better things I doubt I'll ever buy any of it. I have my PC and 360 hooked up to my 19" monitor so I don't even go into the living room except to pass through on the way to the kitchen.
That said, I don't really see the advantage of this. The standardization of 16:9 LCD screens will make them get ever cheaper over time, since companies will be manufacturing more of those size screens. 21:9 screens will not be standard and not as many will be made, so they will be more expensize. If you want a bigger picture for movies, buy a bigger 16:9 screen and deal with the black bars on the top and bottom.
16:9 exists specifically because it is a size compromise between 2.39:1 and 4:3.
Demo reel
Philips' 2009 line-up including another demo reel for the 21:9
Of course, I doubt many are going to buy this thing, but it's nice to dream
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Or is the aspect ratio going to be 15:2 one day?
Er, the movies are exactly the same as on a 16:9 screen.
Our vision naturally tends more along the horizontal then the vertical axis in sort of a very elongated oval
Yes, but at a certain point, this is not accurate to human vision. At least my human vision--then again, wearing glasses for an astigmatism and having poor periphery vision on the whole makes me a less than accurate example of human vision.
Even with your glasses you're going to have a wider FOV on the horizontal then the verticle by nature of your two eyes stacking up horizontally instead of vertically.
That's certainly true, but I'm beginning to think they've passed that with 21:9. Not to mention that your peripheral vision is going to be considerably more focused and clear on the horizontal extremes than the vertical ones for that same reason.
I've seen this before but I have not researched it yet. Without doing any checking I'm interested to see if it supports 2.55:1 among other aspect ratios for classic movies. Since Blu-ray supports a hell of a lot more than "16:9."
I can't wait to see how these things will look in living rooms when Wal-mart shoppers have them stretching 4:3 cable channels across the entire panel.
I could see watching two 4:3 feeds side-by-side on one of these things. That would be nice. Woman can watch so you think you can dance and I could watch good eats. I'd tolerate wearing headphones.
If I'm not mistaken, BR movies are encoded at 1920x1080. Who's going to start delivering movies at 2560x1080?
It's not like anamorphic DVDs which took a 4:3 encoded movie and stretched out properly to 16:9. There isn't such a thing as an anamorphic blu-ray.
Though, I suppose maybe there could be? I don't know, I'm not that well versed in the actual spec.
Rabbit ears, that's a new name for the vertical bars to me. I'm used to hearing them called pillar boxes.
I meant one of these
Ok that makes sense now. But those should no longer be working anymore as of tomorrow.
Edit: Ah, okay. ^
Well I'm no expert either, but it's my understanding that natively encoded 2560 x 1980 content is both possible and on the horizon for the existing blu-ray format. Not likely without compromizes, but possible just the same.
I always found people who can't stand black bars strange. It's such an irrational emotion. Do you hate the space above your television too?
If I could find a way to put more movie or tv there I would.
I like every square inch of my TV real estate to be used. I also like watching movies in the theater, firmly believing that bigger is better when it comes to popcorn entertainment presented by Micheal Bay.
Fair enough, so you just all hate surfaces that are not showing video.
Well yes, obviously, but that has nothing to do with the black bars themselves.
No I grab another bottle of coke since my glass can obviously hold two
I think it's got more to do with the feeling that you paid cash money for TV surface to watch films on, and said TV surface is simply resting idle as black bars and not rendering explosions for your visual enjoyment.
I shouldn't say I hate black bars. I much prefer the absence of black bars. I'm sure black bars is a nice guy and all, and fun to drink with and whatnot. It's nothing personal.
Hey buddy it's your analogy
DVDs have been anamorphic for years. It's extremely rare to find a widescreen movie that isn't.
Blu-rays, on the other hand, are not anamorphic. For movies wider than 16:9, the black bars are encoded into the 1920x1080 picture.
Also, "anamorphic" means different things when you're talking about actually filming a movie (using an anamorphic lens to film a 2.39:1 movie onto film) versus a DVD (encoding a 2.39:1 image into a 16:9 ratio). Both do similar things, ie distorting a picture at the time of capture, either filming or encoding, then "undistorting" them at the time of viewing or decoding, but they're really different processes that have nothing to do with each other.
Patronizing racism towards the black bars!
Anyway, you have the illusion that you're looking through a window into another world when you watch a movie? Wow.
I didn't think it was a minority opinion to think movies are more immersive (izzat a word?) when there are no black bars.
So what do you do for games that don't support widescreen resolutions on a widescreen monitor?
Stretch them out? I know I stick with the aspect ratio because, while I don't like black bars, I don't like everything looking weird either.