Anamorphic widescreen DVD is all about giving you the most lines of picture resolution (and thus quality), while still allowing you to watch widescreen movies as they were meant to be seen.
Non-anamorphic video as it appears on a Digital 16x9 TV. The gray bars are generated by the TV to fill in the unused portions of the screen. Using the TV's "zoom" mode, you can magnify the image to fill the screen electronically, but at the cost of degrading the image quality significantly.
Anamorphic video as it appears on a Digital 16x9 TV. The "squished" image recorded on the disc (seen at top) is sent directly to the TV, which stretches the video signal horizontally until the correct aspect ratio is achieved. As you can see, the image fills the frame, while retaining its full vertical resolution. The picture quality is stunning.
In essence, as I understand, (I could be wrong, you know), anamorphic is done for the purpose of preserving the whole image as it was produced so that it can be viewed in all kinds of aspect ratios.
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1 comment:
What i understand about anamorphic encoding on DVD was a setting on the player to view 16:9 material to a standard analog 4:3 monitors without distortion. Usually it was set in DVD 4:3 letterbox(putting black bars at the top & bottom of picture) to view the picture correctly in a 4:3 monitors.If you have 16:9 display such as Plasma & LCD you can view an original 16:9 material with no problem or distortion. Additional info lang po.....
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