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Post by rbk123 on May 23, 2019 11:35:58 GMT -5
Some recent movies switch between 16:9 and 2.35 - it's because of iMax cameras/film being included. Aquaman is an example. There's no guarantee a 2.35 film will be 2.35 the entire time.
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Post by goozoo on May 23, 2019 12:38:12 GMT -5
Your projector should be able to throw a pretty good 2.35:1 picture..... If it were me, I'd get a bigger screen that is a 2.35:1 (but same height as your current screen) and setup your projector with settings for 16:9 and 2.35:1 material. I have done this with a Panasonic PT7000 and it's fantastic. Put on a 2.35 movie and the projector detects the signal and zooms/refocuses filling the screen with no letterboxing. It was a major improvement over a 16:9 screen. 16:9 material shows vertical black bars, or you can zoom it it a bit. I have 16:9 material showing at about 2:1 to reduce the black bars on the side. Dumb question for you....I know sometimes when watching in 16:9, sometimes the film is the entire screen and sometimes it has bars on it. On a 2.35 screen, if the movie is shot in 2.35, I am assuming that the entire movie takes up the entire screen without bars of any kind? This is not true. You will still have the black bars and will need to zoom in to get rid of them. They just wont be as prominent as on a 1.85 screen. What you gain however is the increased width and hence more picture with a 2.35 screen. Also in looking at your room, you could definitely benefit from acoustic panels made up of diffusors and absorbers. Please don't make the mistake of just getting absorbers.
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Post by Mountainbiking Fool on May 23, 2019 16:09:51 GMT -5
Dumb question for you....I know sometimes when watching in 16:9, sometimes the film is the entire screen and sometimes it has bars on it. On a 2.35 screen, if the movie is shot in 2.35, I am assuming that the entire movie takes up the entire screen without bars of any kind? This is not true. You will still have the black bars and will need to zoom in to get rid of them. They just wont be as prominent as on a 1.85 screen. What you gain however is the increased width and hence more picture with a 2.35 screen. Also in looking at your room, you could definitely benefit from acoustic panels made up of diffusors and absorbers. Please don't make the mistake of just getting absorbers. Agree goozoo about the diffusors and absorbers. That's what I will be working on this summer.
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Post by Timster on May 23, 2019 18:59:27 GMT -5
Dumb question for you....I know sometimes when watching in 16:9, sometimes the film is the entire screen and sometimes it has bars on it. On a 2.35 screen, if the movie is shot in 2.35, I am assuming that the entire movie takes up the entire screen without bars of any kind? This is not true. You will still have the black bars and will need to zoom in to get rid of them. They just wont be as prominent as on a 1.85 screen. What you gain however is the increased width and hence more picture with a 2.35 screen. Also in looking at your room, you could definitely benefit from acoustic panels made up of diffusors and absorbers. Please don't make the mistake of just getting absorbers. Here's how it works for me... I have a 120" diagonal 2.35:1 screen with a Panasonic PT7000. The screen replaced a 16:9 screen, and the 2:35 screen is the same height as my old screen. If I watched 16:9 material on the old screen, it filled the screen completely. If I watched 2.35:1 , material I had horizontal black bars top and bottom. So the same as you would see on TVs, which are all pretty much 16:9 ratio. For a 2.35 film to fill a 16:9 screen you need to zoom it in losing some of the edges of the picture, or you live with the black bars. With the 2.35:1 screen if I watch 16:9 material, it is the same size as what I had on my older screen, but it does not fill in the screen across the whole width. So my black bars are now vertical on each side of a 16:9 program. Or I can zoom it in and sacrifice some vertical picture to reduce the black bars ans make the image wider that 16:9 ratio. I have a seeting for this that is about 2:1, or 16:8. However the best part is .... 2.35 material fills my entire screen, no black bars at all. So when you ask ... "On a 2.35 screen, if the movie is shot in 2.35, I am assuming that the entire movie takes up the entire screen without bars of any kind?" The answer is YES... assuming you have a PJ that can manage it. :-) If you go for a 2.35 screen, you should get one that is the same height as your current screen, that way you lose nothing in size for any 16:9 material, but you gain so much for 2.35 material. I'll take some pictures tonight if I can and post them.
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Post by Timster on May 23, 2019 21:03:02 GMT -5
Your projector should be able to throw a pretty good 2.35:1 picture..... If it were me, I'd get a bigger screen that is a 2.35:1 (but same height as your current screen) and setup your projector with settings for 16:9 and 2.35:1 material. I have done this with a Panasonic PT7000 and it's fantastic. Put on a 2.35 movie and the projector detects the signal and zooms/refocuses filling the screen with no letterboxing. It was a major improvement over a 16:9 screen. 16:9 material shows vertical black bars, or you can zoom it it a bit. I have 16:9 material showing at about 2:1 to reduce the black bars on the side. Dumb question for you....I know sometimes when watching in 16:9, sometimes the film is the entire screen and sometimes it has bars on it. On a 2.35 screen, if the movie is shot in 2.35, I am assuming that the entire movie takes up the entire screen without bars of any kind? This is a pretty good demo of what you can do with the 2.35 screen and an Epson projector .. the exact one you have :-) youtu.be/Jd0SwLKHDWw
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Post by Mountainbiking Fool on May 24, 2019 8:16:29 GMT -5
Dumb question for you....I know sometimes when watching in 16:9, sometimes the film is the entire screen and sometimes it has bars on it. On a 2.35 screen, if the movie is shot in 2.35, I am assuming that the entire movie takes up the entire screen without bars of any kind? This is a pretty good demo of what you can do with the 2.35 screen and an Epson projector .. the exact one you have :-) youtu.be/Jd0SwLKHDWwWill check it out. Thank you!!!
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