Philips to unveil first production 21:9 LCD TV on January 29

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Jan 2009, 22:06

http://www.homecinemachoice.com/blogs/t ... een+LCD+TV

I remember seeing one of these for sales a few years ago. I forget the make. It's a cool idea but:

1. It will be ridiculously wide.
2. Watching 4:3 or 16:9 content on it will look awful, especially since all broadcast TV is in either of these two ratios (or there abouts).

I bet it looks amazing displaying 2.35:1 movies though.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 16 Jan 2009, 18:30

Problem: subtitles usually run into the border, so would be cut off on this screen

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 16 Jan 2009, 18:51

So another problem then

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Subtitles don't run into the side in my experience, if that's what you mean.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 16 Jan 2009, 19:36

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 16 Jan 2009, 19:55

bradavon wrote:So another problem then .

Subtitles don't run into the side in my experience, if that's what you mean.

What? On 2.35:1 films, subtitles often are half in the image, and half in the black border at the bottom, how can you not know that? Therefore if there are no horizontal bars, then you will not see the subtitles which usually reside in said black bars on a 16:9 screen.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 16 Jan 2009, 19:59

Oh, that. You can move subtitles on some HD Players (not mine) but yes agreed bloody good point.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 16 Jan 2009, 20:12

Well on the PS3 there's a subtitle style option, but I haven't yet seen it light up on any BD, never mind DVD, so yeah big problem for any film which has subs.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 17 Jan 2009, 09:12

Philips are wasting their time and money, 16:9 is the standard ratio for everything these days:- TV shows, console games and all of the standard HD resolutions.

It is really annoying how Sky TV over here shows tilt & scan'd abominations of some scope films (not all of them though).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 Jan 2009, 14:00

I'm pretty sure they show everything in the correct aspect ratio over here. Channel 4 Productions (Channel 4, FilmFour etc...) over here always do and have for several years.

It's the likes of BBC 1-2, ITV and Channel 5 who still insist in doing that. They never show films in scope. Despite more people owning WS TVs in the UK than not nowadays. I have no evidence for that btw but reckon it must be true.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 17 Jan 2009, 14:10

Some channels show 2.35:1 films as 1.78:1, but Film4 does indeed show them correctly.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 Jan 2009, 14:12

Sorry that's what I meant. Virtually nothing over here gets shown in 4:3 any more. They tend to rely on the 4:3 option in most Digi-boxes to turn 1.78:1 into 1.33:1. Which it does a perfectly good job of doing (obviously cropping/zooming in on the image).