aspect ratio on amazon video

The Twilight Time bluray is in the correct 2.55 ratio and is superbly transferred.

Noticed that too and stopped watching after a few minutes picked up the DVD at my local library 4 films the outlaws http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Western-Collection-Outlaws-Culpepper/dp/B000EMGJC2/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1464975862&sr=8-23&keywords=the+outlaws+western+collection

This movie is on Encore Westerns right now. It's being shown in 1.78 aspect ratio with no distortion. It looks like we are loosing data from the ends.

Perhaps the 1.78 AR was chosen to fill up a normal 16:9 display with no black bars top and bottom. Some (unenlightened) people seem to think they are missing part of the film because of the black bars. I much prefer letterbox format so we get to see the whole film, without loss of data on the left and right, and maintaining the correct AR.

Comcast has a nifty feature on their cable box that permits zooming the image horizontally (for people who want to fill the whole screen on a standard def channel) or horizontally and vertically (to properly display a 1:78 AR standard def picture fullscreen on a 16:9 display).

Some HD channels stretch out a standard def picture so it fills the entire 16:9 viewing area, thus preventing AR correction by the viewer. Other channels squeeze the data horizontally so that it appears in normal AR if the TV is configured to horizontally stretch a standard def signal (as many do).

I'd like to see a video player that allows independent vertical and horizontal zoom (and unzoom) to enable AR correction for channels and/or video transfers that mess with it.



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Thank the heavens, I thought it was MY inability to adjust my TV correctly to the cinemascope, turns out Amazon is just lazy