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[digitalayon]

I will be making my own custom screen and I am new to this CRT stuff with 6 months experience. So bear with me....Shows in HD and movies seem to be giving me constant different sizes and I end up with bars on the top and bottom unless I adjust resolution. What must I do for a constant size. Some movies fill it and some don't. Could it be my basic Power DVD software?

[Mark_A_W]

Movies have different aspect ratios. Some will fill a screen, some are cinemascope, and will leave black bars top and bottom.

The best way to deal with it is to make adjustable masking out of black felt.

[Curt Palme]

Depending on how anal you are about the correct aspect ratio, there's a couple of ways to do it:

1) Set different memories up for different apsect radios, and stretch or squeeze a bit to keep the height constant.
2) Overshoot the images a bit, and use the electronic blanking in the set to crop the top and bottom of the image.

[Curt Palme]

Depending on how anal you are about the correct aspect ratio, there's a couple of ways to do it:

1) Set different memories up for different apsect radios, and stretch or squeeze a bit to keep the height constant.
2) Overshoot the images a bit, and use the electronic blanking in the set to crop the top and bottom of the image.

[ecrabb]

I'm one of those anal people who thinks you should see it like the director intended you to see it. Would you crop a Monet so it would fit your living room wall better? Stretch a Picasso so it fits your hallway better?

Option #1 would look like ass on scope movies.
Option #2 reduces resolution and you miss a big portion of the composition.

Don't molest the movie to make it fit your screen!

SC

[Curt Palme]

[Curt Palme]