What's the aspect ratio of this show? I have seen the screener Pilot and it was more or less 1.33:1 (classic 4/3 television), but I got the HDTV version of the aired pilot, and the file is 2.35:1 anamorphic! Whoa! Is it because it's HDTV? Or did I download a file with a wrong aspect ratio? Or was the Pilot really in widescreen on NBC?
Sebastiano
In article , Sebapop wrote:
No it wasn't
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:55:39 GMT, Gazzoo wrote:
Thanks. Now I have to understand if it has been aired in widescreen in HDTV. It's weird, the file I have is not only wide, but anamorphic as well.
Sebastiano
"Sebapop" schreef in bericht news:1jc9tsvj9o720.1dukqig3n01v6$[email]...
well.
Here is a FAQ for HDTV http://www.nbc.com/nbc/footer/HDTV.shtml which I got from http://www.nbc.com/Joey/index.shtml. According point two from the advantages:
"Wide-screen picture. Traditional televisions use a 4 by 3 aspect ratio, which means the screens are 4 units wide by 3 units high. However, theatrical films are usually much wider, taking advantage of the actual human field of vision. HDTV uses a wider 16 by 9 aspect ratio, which delivers movies with less "edge cropping" and provides a more intense viewing experience."
I'm guessing this is the answer.
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:50:11 +0200, Lambik wrote:
Yeah, it is. Now I know HDTV is widescreen. The point, though, is that HDTV show movies in their *original* aspect ratio, so if you have a 1.85:1 movie, you're going to see it that way, and not the pan & scan version you would see on regular TV. I am trying to understand if Joey's original aspect ratio (they one we are going to see on DVD, the one intended by the director and the production) is the 2.35:1 I saw or the 1.33:1 aired on NBC. If it's 2.35:1, well, it's kinda weird. Usually, when a tv show is wide, it's aspect ratio is 1.77:1 or 1.85:1. A 2.35:1 aspect ratio is mainly used in the cinema. On a widescreen TV (16/9, 1,77:1) a 2.35:1 tv show would still have the black stripes above and under the picture, so why shooting a Joey with that aspect ratio since it's a *TV* show? If Joey's aspect ratio is, like all the sitcoms I can think of, 1.33:1, why it has been cropped to 2.35:1 for HDTV? It makes no sense.
Sebastiano