BluRay Movies with black line :(

[just4kix]

I always prefer to watch the movies in the original aspect ratio - never cropped or chopped.

 

[designation]

hello guys, i think you got it wrong, i dont want to modify any movie if it screws up the quality,what i was trying to ask is with all this technology why cant they make [ whoever is reponsible for this ]come out with a solution without the black lines.like the bluray " avatar".

1. Most movies are made in cinemascope mode. Here the screen is much more wider than a typical tv screen. Some movies are also made in 16:9 or similar ex: Zero dark thirty, most 3d movies etc. But most of the movies made are in cinemascope mode.
2. So how do you take a movie made for wide screen and show it in a screen that is narrower? One way is to crop/compress it - but that means you lose either some part of the image itself or distort the image (unnaturally tall, thin sticky figures).
Another way is to keep the width as it is, but still show it in a smaller screen - without distortion. The only way to do it is to make the height smaller - here they are not just reducing the height but making the whole image smaller uniformly until the width fits in the screen but by then the height has reduced so much that there are black bars on top and bottom.
3. Only the projector makers can tell why they make projectors that by default show in 16:9. It could be because if you want to show regular tv content (16:9) on cinemascope, then the image would be become too small. So i guess 16:9 is a good compromise.
4. Folks who have answered above have rightly pointed out that the best format to watch something in is the format that it was made in. That way you don't miss anything by way of cropping or distortion. But if you think you can live with some distortion (or loss of content at the sides) but want full screen absolutely, there are settings on the player and the PJ that can do this. Just read the manual of your player/tv/PJ

 

[technobhatt]

hello guys, i think you got it wrong, i dont want to modify any movie if it screws up the quality,what i was trying to ask is with all this technology why cant they make [ whoever is reponsible for this ]come out with a solution without the black lines.like the bluray " avatar".

There can't be any solution to this. Not every movie can be made in 16:9 ratio just to satisfy home users in way so that they can watch it on full screen.
Film Makers have their own reasons of making movie in specific aspect ratio.
Most of the modern day theaters are in 2.35:1 (or 2.40:1) ratio, thus most of the movies are that particular ratio.
But directors intends to shoot movie in 1.78:1 (or 1.85:1) as well; where they don't see the importance of more widescreen ratio.

Just try to read a little about Open Matte and you will get more idea; why James Cameron shot the movie in Open Matte; so that there is no compromise on 16:9 version of the movie, in fact 16:9 version has a little more extra image information. See this: Avatar Aspect Ratio Comparison

However, not every director intends to shoot movie in open matte.

If one tries to crop the original ratio of 2.35:1 to 16:9 full screen, there is no way to adjust that completely and in process there will be loss on image information. That's why I never like cropping of original aspect ratio.