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I am wanting to get the Sony Blu Ray DVD player that is on sale for $180 and I was wondering if people wait outside for the store to open on Thanksgiving Day like on Black Friday. If they do what time should I get there? Thanks in advance.
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You better believe it! I like to go to the day after Thanksgiving sales too. A group of us ladies gets up at 4:30 a.m. and goes to another ladies house for coffee and rolls and we look thru the ads and schedule where we will go when depending on when different stores open and we have a large vehicle we fill up a couple of times and have to have one ladies husband come and unload it and take it home so we can keep shopping without having to return home. We spend about 16 or 17 hours on the road between our town and several towns close to us.
What is the difference between widescreen and anamorphic widescreen?
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I'm planning on buying a bunch of anime soon, but I've suddenly become aware of the differences in aspect and display ratios, most notably where widescreen video will show more detail than the traditional standard definition/pan & scan detail I've grown up with. Now I want more bang for my buck.
The main display is an LG 32LD350-UB with a main 16:9 aspect ratio that can change to 4:3 (along with various other modes). My main player is going to be a PS3. Everywhere I read highly suggests anamorphic widescreen against regular widescreen. Plus, it seems I'm getting caught in the middle between getting Blu-Ray discs or DVD discs.
I get the point that anamorphic widescreen should work flawlessly on 16:9 TVs, but I still don't really understand how regular widescreens discs (*especially* those on Blu-Ray) may not work on the same TV set. I'd like to go without the black bars as much as I can, or at least minimize them as much as possible. Would I still get black bars on my display if I use BR discs?
What is the point of making WS shows/movies if they're not even going to display properly on a WS lcd television?
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You have a 16:9 screen, I recommend you get the blu-ray version, it will work with the tv better and have higher quality.
- But if there is a 2:40:1/2:39:1 or 2:35:1 or 1:85:1 version you want to get that because you can choose the anamorphic (pan and scan) or non-anamorphic (letter-box) version.
Anamorphic widescreen > non-anamorphic widescreen.
- Anamorphic widescreen: is when the horizontal image squeezes and the vertical image stretches which means the image uses all lines of resolution, but you don't keep the original aspect ratio, but you at least you get full-screen while having a higher resolution.
- Non-anamorphic widescreen: is when the image will then be letter-boxed/pillar-boxed in which the vertical or horizontal resolution lines is wasted on black bars, but at least you get to watch the movie in the original aspect ratio on a smaller horizontal or vertical screen.
- Letter-boxing: it takes the original image and puts it onto a tv screen with a smaller horizontal screen, the original image does not get cropped/cut or squashed or stretched which means it keeps the original aspect ratio, but you get black bars on the top and bottom of your tv screen. = No full screen.
= Example: A 12:5 aspect ratio original cinema widescreen image is put onto either a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio screen OR a 16:9 original widescreen image is put onto a 4:3 aspect ratio screen.
- Pillar-boxing: it takes it the original image and puts it onto a tv screen with a bigger horizontal screen, the original image does not get cropped/cut or squashed or stretched which means it keeps the original aspect ratio, but you get black bars on the left and right of your tv screen = No full screen.
= Example: A 4:3 aspect ratio original not widescreen image is put onto either a 16:9 or 12:5 aspect ratio widescreen screen OR a 16:9 aspect ratio original widescreen image is put onto a 12:5 aspect ratio screen.
Window-boxing (or gutter-boxing or match-boxing): is when the letter-box effect and pillar-box effect occur simultaneously which means you got black bars at the top, bottom, left, and right all around the image.
= Example: It can occur when a 12:5 image is set to 16:9 or 4:3 (letterbox), but then shown on a 12:5 tv screen OR It can occur when a 16:9 image is set to 4:3 (letterbox), but then shown on a 16:9 tv screen OR 4:3 image is set to 16:9 (letterbox), but then shown on a 4:3 tv screen.
= OR Example: It can occur when you don't resize resolutions to fill the entire screen (like if the tv does not upscale a 1280x720 to 1920x1080 to fill your tv screen).
- Pan and Scan: it takes the original widescreen image and then equally crops/cuts out the left and right portions from the original widescreen image so the horizontal portion of that image can fit onto a tv screen that has smaller horizontal screen then the original horizontal image.
= Example: A 12:5 aspect ratio original cinema widescreen image is horizontally cropped/cut to either a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio OR 16:9 original widescreen image is horizontally cropped/cut to a 4:3 aspect ratio.
= Crops/cuts out the original widescreen image so it can play full screen on a tv without using black bars or squeezing the image or stretching the image. (You are capable of only cutting out the left or right then doing it equally on both sides so it fits on your screen). = Ruins the director or cinematographer's original vision and intentions of a video/image.
Tilt and Scan (or reverse pan and scan): it takes the original image and then equally crops/cuts out the top and bottom portions from the original image so the vertical portion of that image can fit onto a tv screen that has smaller vertical screen then the original vertical image.
= Example: A 4:3 aspect ratio original image is vertically cropped/cut to either a 16:9 or 12:5 aspect ratio.
= Crops/cuts out the original image so it can play full screen on a tv without using black bars or squeezing the image or stretching the image. (You are capable of only cutting out the left or right then doing it equally on both sides so it fits on your screen). = Ruins the director or cinematographer's original vision and intentions of a video/image.
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