When watching hd movies from the iTunes store through my apple tv on my plasma, I notice that some of the sides of the movie are cut off as the movie fills my screen. My plasma is at the 16:9 setting, and its native resolution is 1920 x 1080. Is this normal?
iMac Intel 2 ghz 20 inch, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 2 GB
Overscan is still quite normal, although there's probably no need for it anymore and probably shouldn't be called overscan either. Different TV's overscan by different amounts.
The overscan is minimal.
The Samsung plasma tv recommends to use the 16:9 setting most of the time. However, there is a screen fit setting in which there is no cut off, but there are tiny 1/2 inch black bars on the top and bottom.
In this case, which setting would you recommend for the optimal viewing experience?
It's a personal choice, I prefer 16:9 as I prefer to have the picture in the correct aspect ratio more than I dislike black bars. Others feel differently, my mom is quite happy watching a 4:3 at fit to screen, I think it's awful.
jjay91 wrote:
The overscan is minimal.
The Samsung plasma tv recommends to use the 16:9 setting most of the time. However, there is a screen fit setting in which there is no cut off, but there are tiny 1/2 inch black bars on the top and bottom.
To me this would raise the possibility that the movie isn't actually 16:9 at all, but slightly wider if you have 1/2 inch black bars top/bottom, and that the TV's 16:9 is forcing the wider image to be scaled to fit 16:9 losing bits at the sides.
On my TV, the "fit to screen" setting seems to keep it 16:9, but shrinks it down to fit the screen and creates the black bars. The "16:9" setting on my tv fills the screen, but cuts off the edges.
I too would prefer the correct aspect ratio. So in this case, which is the correct aspect ratio setting?
The difference that I see is that the 16:9 setting zooms the movie to fit the screen.
I suppose it's possible that the same settings do different things on different TVs. 16:9 gives me black bands at the side for 4:3 or 14:9 movies and top and bottom for panoramic.
Selecting 16:9 aspect ratio on tv cuts off movie
