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By *uton_couple OP   Couple
over a year ago

luton

not long since bought a whopping big flat screen telly , and star trek film has just come on and theres a 3 inch black strip top and bottom

the old fecking thing with a bow front screen showed it all

bastards ............

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you checked your display settings? Widescreen, 16:9 etc? Some films are just set that way though, can't think of the name of it now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The rotten bastards didn't tell you Star Trek was on eh.

Try another channel, there may be summat good on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The rotten bastards didn't tell you Star Trek was on eh.

Try another channel, there may be summat good on. "

Failing that, I'm sure the members could share their DVD collection with you

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By *uton_couple OP   Couple
over a year ago

luton

adverts are full screen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Have you checked your display settings? Widescreen, 16:9 etc? Some films are just set that way though, can't think of the name of it now!"

Narrow ?

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow


"adverts are full screen "

you could just watch the adverts.sometimes they are better anyway.

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By *aughtyinguMan
over a year ago

swindon

some films are shot in ultrawidescreen, or there own funky ratio

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By *yber pimpMan
over a year ago

durham area


"The rotten bastards didn't tell you Star Trek was on eh.

Try another channel, there may be summat good on. "

you should wash your mouth out with soap how dare you diss TREKKIE

moderator ban this man immediately

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sometimes a show or a film is shown at a different ratio to adverts. you'll notice the difference on a bigger screen because there seems to be a bigger jump between sizes, although techically it's the same difference between them, just on a bigger scale. i've noticed it before and i thought there was something wrong with the settings at first. i started messing with the screen ratio settings, then i realised that it wasn't the tv at all. was a relief, i thought i'd have to get a new tv at the time

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Woosh...what's that going over our heads?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sometimes a show is shown at a different size than the adverts so when the adverts come on, you see a change in the size. best way to explain it is if you was watching a film on tv and it was in widescreen, there are black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. when the adverts come on, it resets so the adverts fill the entire screen.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The rotten bastards didn't tell you Star Trek was on eh.

Try another channel, there may be summat good on.

you should wash your mouth out with soap how dare you diss TREKKIE

moderator ban this man immediately "

If this place turns into a Trekkie site, I will leave by my own accord.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

If this place turns into a Trekkie site, I will leave by my own accord. "

Live long and prosper shagga xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sci fi for the win

although i'm a space odyssey guy, which i feel might be worse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

If this place turns into a Trekkie site, I will leave by my own accord.

Live long and prosper shagga xx "

Is that a Trekkie thing?.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

If this place turns into a Trekkie site, I will leave by my own accord.

Live long and prosper shagga xx

Is that a Trekkie thing?. "

Yes lol although obviously lost on you lol xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

If this place turns into a Trekkie site, I will leave by my own accord.

Live long and prosper shagga xx

Is that a Trekkie thing?.

Yes lol although obviously lost on you lol xx "

lol, I saw Star Trek a few times, an old mate was into it (can see why we're no longer friends now eh, lol), I really can't get into it at all, or Star Wars and the likes, I guess I'm more a realism kinda guy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol im the complete opposite if a program is remotely real i hate it lol

Too much reality for me in real life as it is lol

My viewing list of favorites

Coronation street

Star trek

Simpson's

Any cartoon

And of course spongebob

xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Lol im the complete opposite if a program is remotely real i hate it lol

Too much reality for me in real life as it is lol

My viewing list of favorites

Coronation street

Star trek

Simpson's

Any cartoon

And of course spongebob

xxx "

I enjoy Coronation street and Simpson's.

To be honest I don't watch much tv anyway, I can't sit still long enough to watch, lol, hence why I pop on here, I can potter around at the same time.

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By *ickens CiderMan
over a year ago

taunton

Right...

you go to the cinema and watch a film... there you watch it in one of 2 formats... each with there own aspect ratio... which is the distance across the screen width to "one" in height...

"Windscreen" is 1.85:1 this is the narrowest width picture you see in a cinema

"Scope" or "Cinemascope" is the widest picture you'll see at the cinema with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 it will fill the whole of the screen and the masking expands at the start of the feature to give the widest picture... so we're all okay with that yeah? Cool!

Right then... Your old TV back in the day has a screen aspect ratio of 4:3 and if a Scope film came on from the days of the western say the TV company would in effect squeeze the title width wise to let you read them and any people in the background would be all tall and thin! and when the film titles went they would revert back to looking normal... but either side you'd be missing loads of image from the orginal film but in effect it didn't matter as you find most of the story is being told in the centre of the picture so clipping a bit off each side doesn't matter... so tha was in the day of your old 4;3 TV

Widescreen TV hit the stores and WOW thats a bigger better picture... but this is where Cinema widescreen and TV widescreen differ in aspect ratio remember the 1.85:1 in cinema and you TV is 16:9 so lets equally then to a ratio:1 (16 divided by 9 = 1.77 recuring) so right we now have to fit 1.85 width down on to 1.77... hold on that reductionmean the orginal height needs reducing too... so it has to be centred into a letter box in effect i.e the black band top and bottom... thats if you want to see all the picture without losing any image... or exand it and lose a little bit off each side again... most TV 's offer a super or centred or some such expanded aspect to fill all of the screen...

So now then if the orginal film was filmed in Cinemascope or Scope as we'll call it... you have to try and get 2.35 with reducd to the 1.77 width of your TV and then the reduction is great still meaning the 1 of height is smaller again and bigger black bands appear top and bottom... or you lose image from around the edges again but on a scope film that quite alot to lose...

does any of that help?

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By *ustinsideMan
over a year ago

chester

Put a good porno on instead and see what gets beamed up then, I bet it is the captains log and maybe he will use it at worp factor 3, It's life but not as you know it. xxxxx

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By *uton_couple OP   Couple
over a year ago

luton


"Right...

you go to the cinema and watch a film... there you watch it in one of 2 formats... each with there own aspect ratio... which is the distance across the screen width to "one" in height...

"Windscreen" is 1.85:1 this is the narrowest width picture you see in a cinema

"Scope" or "Cinemascope" is the widest picture you'll see at the cinema with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 it will fill the whole of the screen and the masking expands at the start of the feature to give the widest picture... so we're all okay with that yeah? Cool!

Right then... Your old TV back in the day has a screen aspect ratio of 4:3 and if a Scope film came on from the days of the western say the TV company would in effect squeeze the title width wise to let you read them and any people in the background would be all tall and thin! and when the film titles went they would revert back to looking normal... but either side you'd be missing loads of image from the orginal film but in effect it didn't matter as you find most of the story is being told in the centre of the picture so clipping a bit off each side doesn't matter... so tha was in the day of your old 4;3 TV

Widescreen TV hit the stores and WOW thats a bigger better picture... but this is where Cinema widescreen and TV widescreen differ in aspect ratio remember the 1.85:1 in cinema and you TV is 16:9 so lets equally then to a ratio:1 (16 divided by 9 = 1.77 recuring) so right we now have to fit 1.85 width down on to 1.77... hold on that reductionmean the orginal height needs reducing too... so it has to be centred into a letter box in effect i.e the black band top and bottom... thats if you want to see all the picture without losing any image... or exand it and lose a little bit off each side again... most TV 's offer a super or centred or some such expanded aspect to fill all of the screen...

So now then if the orginal film was filmed in Cinemascope or Scope as we'll call it... you have to try and get 2.35 with reducd to the 1.77 width of your TV and then the reduction is great still meaning the 1 of height is smaller again and bigger black bands appear top and bottom... or you lose image from around the edges again but on a scope film that quite alot to lose...

does any of that help? "

same now with alien vs predator

3 inches strip top and bottom all black

ive got 6 inches thats not being used

its a waste

they have adverts in the cinema so why when the adds come on are they full screen

i think the format is too narrow

when the snooker comes on i will be able to watch that , with corrie on one side and enders on the other

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ive got 6 inches thats not being used "

Know that feeling

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By *razydriver8Couple
over a year ago

plymouth

If this place turns into a Trekkie site, I will leave by my own accord.

you baktag ... i should send you to Sto-vo-kor for that insult....

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By *razydriver8Couple
over a year ago

plymouth

ive got 6 inches thats not being used

its a waste

6 inches is never a waste.. as long as you use it right.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Beam me up scottie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The rotten bastards didn't tell you Star Trek was on eh.

Try another channel, there may be summat good on. "

Best comment on the forums this week, wether you agree or not - twas funny

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