Thread: So I got a bluray and projector but the picture size with wide screens.

I not sure if you guys / gals can answer this. But My wife went out and got a nice mitsubishi 1080 projector 3800c. I think. 16:9. Okay so that is great. Got a panasonci BD60 blu-ray player with a 25ft hdmi cable. So far so good. But when I play a dvd or like the new blu-ray harry potter movie. There is bars on top and bottom. WTF. I thought this is what would take care of this. When I play a full screen movie. No bars. Now I read there is different movie format. But the disc says 16:9. I set the blu-ray player to 16:9 full aka take out the bar on top and bottom. But it is still there. I also updated the blu-ray formware and the projector is on auto but when I view. show 16xxX1080 and 16:9 auto.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Josh

Nah you will get the bars, many movies are 2:35 format, many use black out cloth or get such a format screen for that material... (back to my HT and 16:9 Survivor from dvr )

Are you absolutely certain that the main feature is 16:9???

The only Blu-ray versions I've seen are 2.35:1 (half-blood) or 2.40:1 (all others).

Most TV Series are 16:9, on BD, but like harshness says, the other 2 formats, I had to look to notice a minute ago when I put in a 2:35:1 to see the bars, you will get used to it.

You would see those black bars on a flat panel as well. Nearly half of all movies are are a wider than 16:9 format, cinemascope as was explained above. 16:9 is the format for HDTV and a compromise between the 4:3 of old tv and the 21:9 format of cinemascope movies.

With a good screen and masking, you can show a wide range of formats from your PJ.

There are 54 different aspect ratios for film over the past 70-80 years. Currently about 85% of movies are 1.85:1 (16:9=1.78). Most other movies today are 2.25:1 to 2.4:1. If you watched one of these movies on an older 4:3 set the bars would be nearly as large as the picture.

Yes I caught the different formats thoughout the era's. It says 16x9 2.4:1. If this is all together I can see yes. That would give lines. But I assumed 16x9 would fit since it was a 16x9 projector. I didn't see any settings asap. Unless it is under setup. I'll look into the issue more. maybe e-mail panasonic. Say hey 16x9 full should get rid of lines. Perhaps I need to change it off for this setting.

thanks so far for the help.

Josh