Anamorphic WS laserdiscs

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Okay, sorry this is the last topic I'm going to post for a while. I
PROMISE!

I've seen some Anamorphic WS laserdiscs on eBay. They're pretty expensive
usually, too. I was thinking of picking up a movie or two for use on my
dad's 16:9 TV. These look pretty good I guess? 425 lines of res w/ no LTBX
correct?

It really bothers me watching a WS movie from LD on that tv set. It just
wastes all that video bandwidth and ends up looking no better than VHS
when I put the TV on "expand" mode to cut out the black bars.

-Mike

 

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"half_eaten" <half_eaten@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've seen some Anamorphic WS laserdiscs on eBay. They're pretty
> expensive
> usually, too. I was thinking of picking up a movie or two for use on
> my
> dad's 16:9 TV. These look pretty good I guess? 425 lines of res w/ no
> LTBX
> correct?

http/www.mindspring.com/~laserguru/squeeze.html

 

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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:10:41 -0500, "half_eaten"
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>w/ no LTBX correct?

There had better be some letterboxing! Otherwise the aspect ratio will
be wrong.

 

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Well, yes on a normal 4:3 TV... but hooking it up to a widescreen
television set on "Standard" mode will look perfect.

 

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An anamorphic LD "expanded" on a 16:9 set will fill it only if the
source program is also 16:9, otherwise you may either lose some of the
picture or still have remaing black bars (though smaller).

 

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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:11:20 -0500, "half_eaten"
<half_eaten@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Well, yes on a normal 4:3 TV... but hooking it up to a widescreen
>television set on "Standard" mode will look perfect.

No, I mean even on a WS set there should be letterboxing! If there
aren't black bars, then the aspect ratio is almost certainly wrong.

 

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Strange that I would run across this post this morning. Yesterday I was
going thru all my LD's to decide which to keep and which to toss
(running out of room to store them). My copy of Star Trek Generations
was labled as Anamorphic WS. Since I just purchased a HDTV I thought I
would try it out. I new what the result would be but I had to try
anyway. It is definately not an amamorphic transfer, just plain old
letterboxed widescreen.

Bill

 

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<xeaglecrest@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Strange that I would run across this post this morning. Yesterday I
> was
> going thru all my LD's to decide which to keep and which to toss
> (running out of room to store them). My copy of Star Trek Generations
> was labled as Anamorphic WS. Since I just purchased a HDTV I thought
> I
> would try it out. I new what the result would be but I had to try
> anyway. It is definately not an amamorphic transfer, just plain old
> letterboxed widescreen.

There is a difference between anamorphic enhancement as it applies to
home video formats and the use of anamorphic lenses during photography.
Star Trek generations was photographed with Panavision anamorphic lenses
for a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, but the LD is standard non-anamorphic
letterbox.

 

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<<No, I mean even on a WS set there should be letterboxing!>>

Technically, even with a 1.85:1 anamorphic DVD, there should ALWAYS be
visible black bars. Widescreen TVs have a 1.78:1 aspect ratio, to
narrow to display an entire 1.85:1 image without letterboxing. However,
consumer grade 16:9 TVs exhibit 5-10% overscan which pulls the black
bars on 1.85:1 films out of the picture. It also hides some picture
area on 2.35:1 films, on either side. This overscan can be corrected
for, but broadcast television usually contains "garbage information"
that tends to hide in the overscan areas, making it invisible on
un-corrected display devices. That "garbage" will become visible on a
display set for 0 overscan.

 

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hi

I have several copies left of the Fugitive. I would be willing to sell for
$65 plus shipping direct (off of ebay), or willing to do an even trade for 6
Days 7 Nights in dts or Rob Roy in dts.

Feel free to email me directly if interested (or to call).
--
Gregg Loewen
Lion Audio Video Consultants
240 Knowlton Corner Rd
Farmington ME 04938

Home 207 778 5417
Cellular 201 232 3380

www.LionAV.com
gregg@LionAV.com
"half_eaten" <half_eaten@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, sorry this is the last topic I'm going to post for a while. I
> PROMISE!
>
> I've seen some Anamorphic WS laserdiscs on eBay. They're pretty expensive
> usually, too. I was thinking of picking up a movie or two for use on my
> dad's 16:9 TV. These look pretty good I guess? 425 lines of res w/ no LTBX
> correct?
>
> It really bothers me watching a WS movie from LD on that tv set. It just
> wastes all that video bandwidth and ends up looking no better than VHS
> when I put the TV on "expand" mode to cut out the black bars.
>
> -Mike
>

 

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Joshua's point was that "anamorphic" as written on the jacket refers to
the movie itself, not to the LD. Similarly, some LD jackets will say a
movie was theatrically released in dts (among others), but the LD does
not offer dts sound.

 

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Joshua Zyber wrote:
>
> <xeaglecrest@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:41DFE219.6EF@worldnet.att.net...
> > Strange that I would run across this post this morning. Yesterday I
> > was going thru all my LD's to decide which to keep and which to toss
> > (running out of room to store them). My copy of Star Trek Generations
> > was labled as Anamorphic WS. Since I just purchased a HDTV I thought
> > I would try it out. I new what the result would be but I had to try
> > anyway. It is definately not an amamorphic transfer, just plain old
> > letterboxed widescreen.
>
> There is a difference between anamorphic enhancement as it applies to
> home video formats and the use of anamorphic lenses during photography.
> Star Trek generations was photographed with Panavision anamorphic lenses
> for a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, but the LD is standard non-anamorphic
> letterbox.

My point was that the jacket lists the format as anamorphic widescreen
when in fact the disc is actually regular WS.