Wider than wide?

[Janice]

can anyone explain why when watching newish films (2005) on sky movies hd there is a broad black band at the top and bottom of the screen.
Our HD tv is widescreen and I thought we had seen the last of those black top and bottoms when we used to watch widescreen movies on a normal tv.

have they just made films even wider or something??

 

[IanC_UK]

is there an option to tell Sky HD that you have a Widescreen TV in the setup ? Sounds like it thinks you dont have Wide tv and is outputting differently.

 

[rpstewart]

It's probably a movie that's been shot in Cinemascope and broadcast at the correct aspect ratio. Widescreen TV is 16:9 (1.78:1) whereas Cinemascope is 2.35:1

 

[Janice]

NO I'm definitely in 16:9 both on the sky setup and the tv menu.

MaYBE its the cinemascope thing then.

Thanks.

 

[IanC_UK]

It's probably a movie that's been shot in Cinemascope and broadcast at the correct aspect ratio. Widescreen TV is 16:9 (1.78:1) whereas Cinemascope is 2.35:1

Ooooh yeah ! forgot all about that !

 

[CT]

Annoying as Hell that. I usually use Movie Expand which gets rid of 'em.