Jason Dunn
12-15-2006, 08:00 PM
Here's a quote from a company named Runco about their CineWide product (http://www.runco.com/cinewide.html), whom I hadn't heard of before today:
"Runco’s award winning development of CineWide™ and CineWide with AutoScope™ technology has created a revolution in faithful movie reproduction, for the first time transforming home theater into home cinema. This technology provides uncompromised widescreen reproduction of movies originally filmed in the CinemaScope™ 2.35:1 format. It maintains constant vertical height on the screen just as in a movie theater. When a viewer transitions from 1.78:1 (16:9) program material to superwide 2.35:1, the image simply gets wider while full screen height is maintained, eliminating black bars. This is done through an ingenious combination of software, electronics and precision anamorphic optics. With the AutoScope option, the anamorphic lens is motorized and remote controlled. With CineWide the projection system is able to use the full pixel array on its SuperOnyx™ DMD™ chips, thereby producing a 2.35:1 image with enhanced resolution and increased brightness. No resolution or image area is lost to useless black bars on the top and bottom of the screen that contain no picture information."
I was trying to figure out if this was real or just smoke and mirrors, until I saw this at the very bottom of the page "CineWide requires the use of a 2.35:1 or similar aspect ratio superwide format screen." That makes it an impractical solution for most of us - unless you're using a projector that is - but it's nice to see that someone can see a movie filling their entire screen. That's got to me my #1 complaint with DVDs, and now HD-DVDs: most don't fill up my screen. I bought a 61 inch TV for a reason, why can't I view movies at the full size? Yeah, yeah, I know the directors/studios have their own reasons for selecting the aspect ratio that they do, but as an end user I feel ripped off when I see some crazy-narrow aspect ratio that has me only using 60% of my TV. Using the "Zoom" aspect ratio on my TV works sometimes, but more often than not it results in horrible scaling issues and missing content from both sides.
Does that drive anyone else nucking futs?
"Runco’s award winning development of CineWide™ and CineWide with AutoScope™ technology has created a revolution in faithful movie reproduction, for the first time transforming home theater into home cinema. This technology provides uncompromised widescreen reproduction of movies originally filmed in the CinemaScope™ 2.35:1 format. It maintains constant vertical height on the screen just as in a movie theater. When a viewer transitions from 1.78:1 (16:9) program material to superwide 2.35:1, the image simply gets wider while full screen height is maintained, eliminating black bars. This is done through an ingenious combination of software, electronics and precision anamorphic optics. With the AutoScope option, the anamorphic lens is motorized and remote controlled. With CineWide the projection system is able to use the full pixel array on its SuperOnyx™ DMD™ chips, thereby producing a 2.35:1 image with enhanced resolution and increased brightness. No resolution or image area is lost to useless black bars on the top and bottom of the screen that contain no picture information."
I was trying to figure out if this was real or just smoke and mirrors, until I saw this at the very bottom of the page "CineWide requires the use of a 2.35:1 or similar aspect ratio superwide format screen." That makes it an impractical solution for most of us - unless you're using a projector that is - but it's nice to see that someone can see a movie filling their entire screen. That's got to me my #1 complaint with DVDs, and now HD-DVDs: most don't fill up my screen. I bought a 61 inch TV for a reason, why can't I view movies at the full size? Yeah, yeah, I know the directors/studios have their own reasons for selecting the aspect ratio that they do, but as an end user I feel ripped off when I see some crazy-narrow aspect ratio that has me only using 60% of my TV. Using the "Zoom" aspect ratio on my TV works sometimes, but more often than not it results in horrible scaling issues and missing content from both sides.
Does that drive anyone else nucking futs?