[rescue] Wide Sun monitors

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:03:43AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
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> > I had a brief tour of Carnival Cruise lines data center last
> > night and saw something interesting.  They had some very wide
> > Sun monitors.  I'm not sure on the exact ratio but they were
> > definitely not 3:4.  they looked just like regular 21"s but
> > with maybe 3 or 4 additional inches in width.
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> These are probably the Sony 24" monitors, rebadged as Sun monitors.
> Ratio is either 16:10 or 16:9 ("widescreen" format, same as movies) .

One thing I've noticed in the theatre is that there doesn't seem to be a
single widescreen standard.  For instance, 1.85 or 2.35, while HTDV is
only 1.6.

That makes me wonder if when we go to make DVDs of these movies for HDTV
are we going to have to have letter boxing still?  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd