[rescue] Wide Sun monitors

[Kevin]

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That would truly piss me off.  I believe they already have
some DVDs like this.  I bought a DVD this past weekend that
supposedly had a wide"format version"(don't remember off the
top of my head what DVD that was... maybe Jackie Brown).

/KRM

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:33:59 -0500
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> > 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
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