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It depends what type of screen you're watching it on ! A 'standard' TV set uses 4:3 ratio. A wide-screen model uses 16:9 ratio.
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How do you tell if a DVD is wide screen or full screen?
Widescreen DVD's are designed for modern TV's with an aspect ration of 16:9 (almost twice as wide as tall). Most movies made in the past 50 years will fit better on these screens, although most will show a small band of black at the top and bottom of the screen. Full Screen DVD's have the movie edited to fit on an older TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio (almost square). These movies will play on a widescreen TV, but large black bars on the sides (pillarboxes) will be present and some of the movie's original screen space is lost in the edit. Most TV shows created in the past 5 years are formatted for Widescreen viewing, which is also the aspect ratio of High Definition television.
What is best for a car DVD wide screen or full screen?
Full screen... Kids like to watch movies on a big screen.
What is the aspect ratio of a widescreen resolution?
Anamorphic format is usually used for standard widescreen movies on a standard 35 mm movie. Anamorphic widescreen uses an aspect ratio of 4:3 for a DVD Format.
What is the significance of aspect ratio in computer graphics?
In computer graphics, the relative horizontal and vertical sizes. For example, if a graphic has an aspect ratio of 2:1, it means that the width is twice as large as the height. When resizing graphics, it is important to maintain the aspect ratio to avoid stretching the graphic out of proportion. The term is also used to describe the dimensions of a display resolution. For example, a resolution of 800x600 has an aspect ratio of 4:3.
If I play a DVD on my HDTV I get a thin black horizontal line in the picture a few pixels from the top. Connecting my computer you see the line on the top bottom and sides of any video or DVD. Why?
On your TV, you have the ability to change the aspect ratio of the picture. What's happening is that you may have the aspect ratio improperly set so that the DVD's picture doesn't fill the screen, or possibly the video was filmed in an aspect ratio that's different that our current standards (maybe something originally ilmed in a different video format). On your computer, it sounds like you're seeing the edges of the viewing area of your monitor. ALL CRT (tube type monitors) have a usable viewing area, but also conatin a black line around the top, bottom and sides.
What does Ff mean if it is listed after a DVD title?
Ff stands for "fullscreen," indicating that the DVD content is presented in a fullscreen aspect ratio (4:3) rather than widescreen (16:9).
Why do DVD movies come in wide screen only. I would like to watch them in full screen.?
the sides of the movie that you see at the theater are cut out in "full screen" DVD's, that way you don't see the empty space on top and bottom on your square TV. The theater screens are a rectangle shape.
How can you find a full screen version of twilight DVD?
I live in Australia and i got mine from Target.
Do Asians see the same as Caucasians?
No, they see a slightly narrower world. A bit like the difference between the wide screen and full screen settings of a dvd.
Using microsft movie maker to make a DVD but the imported files are power point slides converted to JPEG files and the slides are cutting of on the top and sides when the DVD is played?
Which setting did you use to publish/finish the PP video? It sounds like the aspect ratio for wide-screen (16:9) was selected instead of 4.3. That's the only reason I can see for the top of clips missing on the DVD playback.But that does not account for the sides of the video not being visible though (since 16:9 ratio would show full sides). Are you sure the Zoom setting on the actual television you are viewing the DVD on isn't set to a level 1 or 2 zoom?? That would certainly chop off the top and sides of the video.
What is wide screen presentation enhanced for 169 TV?
It's all to do with aspect ratios. An aspect ratio is the shape of an image, so a film format that is twice as wide as it is high will have an aspect ratio of 2 : 1. Traditional television has an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, so it is 4 wide and three high. Widescreen television is 16 : 9 so it looks wider than 4 : 3. and that is where the problems lie - film is normally a different aspect ratio than television so when a film is converted to DVD, the shape has to change. When it is being mastered, there is now a choice of 4 : 3 or 16 : 9 aspect ratios. The choice in this case is to format the film to 16 : 9 hence the claim "enhanced for 16 : 9" in fact, it is rarely enhanced because every shot will have part of the image cropped from the sides (or the top and bottom in some cases). There are some clever gadgets called ARCs that do the job (Aspect Ratio Converters). Not only do they re-size and re-shape the image, they can also control the area of the original image that is captured. Most films are converted dynamically, meanign that the area converted will move from one shot to the next.
DVD player full form?
full form of dvd
