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Old 7th February 2006, 13:50   #50  |  Link
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Originally Posted by jmk
what i have encountered now a couple of times is, that the ratio on the back of the dvd cover had nothing to do with the actual ratio of the picture without the black borders.
Very rarely though!

With Blade Runner for example. When you play this DVD in a software media player (such as Media Player Classic) and take a "full screen" capture you will see this: -



As you can see both the horizontal and vertical mattes are very poor indeed

However, when you hard crop the mattes away from the above image you will see this -



And when you divide 968 pixels by 414 pixels you get aspect ratio of 2.338 to 1 (2.338:1).

Which is only 5 "horizontal" pixels away from 2.35:1. Or just 2 "vertical" pixels away from 2.35:1


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