Widescreen or full screen?

[GA Russell]

I am looking at a DVD at Amazon. The description doesn't say whether it is widescreen or full screen, but it does say that the Aspect Ratio is 2.35:1.

That would make it widescreen, right? What would the aspect ratio of a full screen DVD be?

[Shawn]

  On 11/11/2012 at 7:52 PM, GA Russell said:

I am looking at a DVD at Amazon. The description doesn't say whether it is widescreen or full screen, but it does say that the Aspect Ratio is 2.35:1.

That would make it widescreen, right? What would the aspect ratio of a full screen DVD be?

Full screen aspect ratio is 1.33:1

Standard widescreen aspect ratios are 1.66:1, 1.78:1, 1.85:1, 2.35:1 and 2.66:1.

Edited November 11, 2012 by Shawn

[GA Russell]

Thanks Shawn!

[mjb]

Although it is not much of an issue now, the image should be anamorphic to take up all of a 16:9 screen.

The last one I recall is the first series of House - it is not anamorphic and so has black bars all around the image.

Edited November 13, 2012 by mjb