A disadvantage of watching letterboxed format, occurs when the film's
format is really wide- screen (as in the 2 Chinese examples above), and you are
watching the film on
1. A small monitor
2. an inferior monitor
3. An inferior vcr.
Sometimes the level of detail on the original film is so great that it
just turns to mush on vhs/ntsc. Since the image takes up only about 60%
of the scan lines of ntsc, you only get 150 lines of resolution instead of
240 or thereabouts. So the image quality is reduced by 40%.
But with a line doubler....?
Hope this helps.
At 06:36 AM 3/21/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>Dear Listserv Members:
>Seems to me letterbox is the WHOLE movie---you know, the one you pay for =
>at the theatre. Without the letterbox format, you don't get to see the =
>sides of the film. As the movies are a part of artistic expression, who =
>are we to argue with the director? My patron's don't mind letterbox, if =
>they come that way, we get them that way.
>Regards,
>Carol Dunn
>Audio Visual/NT Manager
>Findlay Hancock County Public Library
>206 Broadway
>Findlay, Ohio 45840
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>Phone:419-422-1712
>Fax: 419-422-0638
>=09
> http://www.findlay.lib.oh.us
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Judy Jones [SMTP:JONESJM@libraryserver.lib.csus.edu]
>Sent: Friday, March 20, 1998 4:52 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Re: Letterbox vs reformatted
>
>Please help me here. Don't most people own normal TV sets? As an=20
>individual, nothing is more irritating to me than to rent a movie and=20
>get it home and find out it is "letterbox." I want my whole screen=20
>filled up with picture. What am I supposedly missing out on? =20
>
>Oh, we don't purposely order any titles in Letterbox here at CSUS. =20
>
>
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:40:45 -0800
>Reply-to: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>From: Myles Jaeschke <mjaesch@ns1.tccl.lib.ok.us>
>To: Multiple recipients of list =
><videolib@library.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: Letterbox vs reformatted
>
>Wow,=20
>I just joined this list and already interesting topic! When a video is=20
>available both ways, I don't even consider "pan and scan". Our system=20
>is medium-large--23 branches and 1 central library. When I order=20
>videos, some of the other branches attach to my order so, they too get=20
>what I order. (Widescreen) If a title is "letterboxed" our catalogers=20
>specify in the record if the title is "letterboxed". If it is not=20
>letterboxed then no notation is made.
>
>In short, educate the public, buy "Widescreen"!
>
>Hope this helps,
>Myles Jaeschke
>Film Librarian
>Tulsa City-County Library
>
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