However, the modern version of both of these popular widescreen systems have evolved to a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. The early CinemaScope(TM) and Panavision(TM) systems used an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Several companies have offered competing cameras and projection system to the cinema industry that have used aspect ratios in the range of 2.3:1 to 2.4:1. The real issue comes once we go from the cinema standard format up to the ‘scope’ widescreen format. The bottom line is consumer HDTVs and projectors with a 1.78:1 apect ratio work well for displaying commercial movies using the cinema standard format. The alternative would be to add thin black bars to the top and bottom of the 1.78:1 HDTV image to create a 1.85:1 image format (generally called letterbox). 2% of the image from each the right and left edges of the 1.85:1 frame to produce the HDTV 1.78:1 format. Such movies provided on Blu-ray Disc, for example, may be slightly cropped by removing approx. The consumer standard for HDTV uses a aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (i.e., 16 x 9) which is close to the cinema standard 1.85:1 format. The transition from film to digital, for both commercial cinema cameras and projectors, has placed additional practical constraints on the aspect ratios being used for commercial movies.
#Cinescope ratio movie
As indicated above, these are the presentation formats and not the formats captured on film by the movie camera. The vast major of Hollywood productions are now presented in either 1.85:1 aspect ratio, known as the Cinema Standard format, or in a widescreen (‘scope’) format with an aspect ratio of at of near 2.39:1. Over the more than a century of commercial cinema productions, the movie studios have used dozens of different film formats, with differing aspect ratios (Wiki is HERE). Over the past few decades the presentation formats (i.e., what is seen in the movie theater) used in North America seems to have settled down to just two presentation formats, with some small variations, being used for the vast majority of commercial movie productions. This blog includes the contents of the message we received as well as some background and discussion on the subject of using a ‘Scope’ screen, with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 or 2.40:1, instead of the traditional HDTV aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (i.e., 16 x 9). A few months ago Art received a message from a visitor of the Projector Reviews web site that discussed the implications of using one of the Sony 4K projectors for displaying wide aspect ratio ‘scope’ movies with a constant image height (CIH) setup.
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