JL12W7
Established Member
I was wondering what all this fuss is about buying a 2:35:1 scope screen over a standard 16:9 aspect ratio anyway I have already purchased and installed a 16:9 ALR screen which is 133’’ diagonal 118’’ wide and 66’’ top to bottom.
I contacted our friendly Chinese factory work shop to order such a screen in the ratio of 2:35:1 in the same width of 117’’ wide but here is where it gets interesting and this is what I cannot figure out the height on this screen was only 49’’ on the scope screen as opposed to the current 66’’ on my 16:9 screen.
So, if I did go for the scope screen with the same width of 117’’ as I cannot go physically wider it would make absolutely no difference in buying a scope screen as if I zoom out to fill the entire scope screen it will be the same size on both screens only difference is on my 16:9 I will have the black bars top and bottom.
So why do people buy the scope screen as it is way narrower from top to bottom as if I had gone with 2:35:1 I would have lost 16’’ so that is 8’’ top and bottom same as the black bars, I guess.
Can I letterbox my movie to fill the whole screen and remove the black bars is that possible and retain aspect ratio just a question now don’t go biting my head off.
I contacted our friendly Chinese factory work shop to order such a screen in the ratio of 2:35:1 in the same width of 117’’ wide but here is where it gets interesting and this is what I cannot figure out the height on this screen was only 49’’ on the scope screen as opposed to the current 66’’ on my 16:9 screen.
So, if I did go for the scope screen with the same width of 117’’ as I cannot go physically wider it would make absolutely no difference in buying a scope screen as if I zoom out to fill the entire scope screen it will be the same size on both screens only difference is on my 16:9 I will have the black bars top and bottom.
So why do people buy the scope screen as it is way narrower from top to bottom as if I had gone with 2:35:1 I would have lost 16’’ so that is 8’’ top and bottom same as the black bars, I guess.
Can I letterbox my movie to fill the whole screen and remove the black bars is that possible and retain aspect ratio just a question now don’t go biting my head off.