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| Registered: May 15, 2008 |  Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | I hope I'm not over-testing peoples' patience with so many Newbie questions that I can't find answers for anywhere else.
I have a DVD whose feature is presented as 4:3 but the content is letterboxed to 16:9. It is not Anamorphic widescreen. That is, it plays on a 16:9 TV as 4:3 letterbox unless one uses the "Zoom" feature on the TV to manually expand the content to full screen. Neither was this content produced with an "Open matte" technique. The matte used to produce the letterbox is part of the original recording and cannot be removed to produce a 4:3 full screen image. To make matters a bit more confusing, the Extra Features are mostly full screen content recorded as 4:3, that is, no pan & scan. I've read the "Video Formats" section of the "Contribution Rules" but I'm not certain how to handle this DVD.
Should the Aspect Ratio of this DVD be listed as "Widescreen" with an Aspect Ratio of 1.78 and the "16 x 9 Enhanced" box left unchecked? |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 |  Posts: 103 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mardon: Quote:
Should the Aspect Ratio of this DVD be listed as "Widescreen" with an Aspect Ratio of 1.78 and the "16 x 9 Enhanced" box left unchecked? Yes, exactly correct (assuming the aspect is in fact 1.78:1). DVD Profiler's "16x9 Enhanced" option means anamorphic video. |
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| Registered: May 15, 2008 | | Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for all youor help today!  |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 103 |
| | Posted: | | | | You're welcome. I think everyone here would agree that we'd far prefer new users to read the rules and ask questions where necessary, as you have done, than blindly submit bad profiles. Well done for doing things right.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | HEAR, HEAR. Skip  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't remember if it was always this way, but PowerDVD7 shows whether the source material is 4:3 or 16:9 when you open the "configurations" window. That window will show you a number of things, like the regions available on the DVD. I recently noticed that it also shows either 4:3 or 16:9 depending on which the material is. It won't show what the actual aspect is (1.78:1 vs 1.85:1) but it does show the distinction between anamorphic and letterbox. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
DVD Profiler user since June 15, 2001 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | PowerDVD does this at leasat back to version 4 that I am aware. DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink and numerous other tools will give the same data as well, though NONE will give the AR.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | One other thing I just wanted to add. In your post you mention the special features being in 4:3. This is irrelevant. The aspect ratio is only in regards to the main feature (at least when it comes to data acceptable for the online database).
-Agrare |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | Also be carefull not to determine the aspect ratio in the the title section, it could be cropped or masked to fit the titles, do it in the middle of the movie.  | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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