Sky HD Zulu aspect ratio puzzle

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Apr 2008, 12:16

http://blog.homecinemachoice.com/page/h ... pect_ratio

And the short review:

http://blog.homecinemachoice.com/page/h ... _sky_hd_av

It seems Sky are now creating their own HD Masters to enable British films to get shown sooner, but they've gone and stuffed up Zulu by showing it in the wrong aspect ratio.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 03 Apr 2008, 13:34

Open-matted scope films for HD broadcasts are not uncommon. HBO in the US are notorious for doing it. Still a travesty if the actual master is in that ratio, at least they had the decency to keep the sound in 2.0.

Joppers · Post by **Joppers** » 04 Apr 2008, 14:01

Yeah it does look like they've done their own HD transfer and there are some framing differences, but I think it's a bit extreme to say that it's now 1:85:1

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Apr 2008, 15:26

Regardless it's not 2.20:1.