Widescreen or Full Frame

[Nowhere Man]

I prefer OAR.

I love OAR!

 

[Set Harth]

Especially THRESHING OAR.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

OAS = original aspect ratio. I'm glad it's getting a lot of support.

Yeah... Don't know how initialisms work, do we?

It does appear to be an error, but one that has been circulated at least since 2008. I don't know, but I wonder whether it originated in some manufacturer's manual, or on a TV menu? The error is present on these pages, for example:

http://www.findayes.com/hair/black/why-does-my-widescreen-tv-still-show-the-black-bars-top-and-bottom-of-a-widescreen-movie.html

http://hdtvask.com/plasma/plasma-27.html

http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080606195843AAN9DdK

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I think the industry is getting frustrated about people who prefer full screen and complain about the black bars in widescreen. I have a copy of True Grit here, and on the box it says: "This Film is presented in 'Widescreen' format. The Black bars on the top and bottom of the screen are normal." I've seen statements before, but I've never seen it so bluntly stated on a package before.

They still sell 4:3 cropped DVDs over there? They never did take off here and I haven't seen one in probably a decade. Mind you Widescreen TVs were standard here long before HD took off.

I think it's because a 2.35:1 film still has black bars even on a widescreen TV and a lot of our (US) channels will crop films to 1.85:1 (or 1.78:1 or whatever...) to fill the screens.

Most films are shown widescreen on TV here now, even 2:35:1 is becoming quite normal on network TV here.