I maintain AR when do encoding and get rid of the anamorphic effect. So I will resize to something like 640x272 and this will fit nicely for 1 CD rip for 2 hours movie (with ogg). It always challenging for me if the movie 1.85:1 or worst 1.33:1 since I usually have to go 2 CDs for acceptable quality.
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4:3 TVs with widescreen mode *DON'T* increase vertical resolution *AT ALL*. They do what your DVD player does: they resize the picture down to 720x406 (and not 306) and add once again black bars. So anamorphic encoding is only good if you have a real 16:9 TV. BTW, there is no 2,35:1 encoded DVDs. There is only 4:3 or 16:9. 2,35:1 movies are encoded in 16:9 mode with black bars.
I hate to disagree ... but widescreen mode on 4:3 TVs uses all the lines available in an anamorphic DVD. This is the whole point of 16:9 mode on 4:3 TVs. Instead of the DVD player letterboxing and sending a 4:3 picture to the TV ... the TV takes the full anamorphic resolution and displays it as a widescreen picture, substantially improving quality. This shows for example that all the resolution is focused on the screen. You can switch the image bewteen 4:3 mode and 16:9 compression mode to see the difference.
I found this explanation far easier to understand: Anamorphic vs. Non-Anamorphic DVD (1.85:1 Aspect Ratio Film) Anamorphic vs. Non-Anamorphic DVD (2.35:1 Aspect Ratio Film) And if you're really into it you can read the whole guide here: Page 1, Page 2, DJ Bobo said everything the way I always understood it before.
@ manono I havn't mean the actual movie resolution, but the resolution of the whole picture stored on the DVD. So the DVD player takes the 720x576 anamorphic picture, resizes it to 720x432 (sorry, it was 432 and not 406, I just mistyped) and black bars are added. I think, you just misunderstood me. All 2,35:1 PAL DVD movies I've seen till now were encoded 16:9 anamorphic. I noticed that NTSC DVDs have 2 versions (always looking in online shops :D), one widescreen and one "normal" version. Sorry that I havn't specified this more specifically. Seems like you done the job :D @ NearlyCritical You're talking about that *PARTICULAR* TV. Normal 4:3 TVs with 16:9 mode don't do what you saw on that SONY site ;)
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@ DJ Bobo I just used the Sony site to demonstrate what widescreen mode does on a 4:3 TV. LG and JVC also have this feature. So what does widescreen mode do on other TVs??
@NearlyCritical The first link in my first post answers your question to Dj Bobo I think. The second set of pictures shows a 4:3 television demonstrating how it displays letterbox widescreen vs anamorphic widescreen. Then the 3rd set of pictures shows a 16:9 television demonstrating how it displays letterbox widescreen vs anamorphic widescreen.
Still it's not common to all TVs. That focusing feature is only available on selected TV-Sets, not on all of them. We've got a THOMSON TV-Set with a 16:9 mode, and it doesn't focus anything, it just resizes down.
Hi- Still, if NearlyCritical's and bb's and other's high end 4:3 sets can do that, it'll give a major quality boost for anamorphic DVD material. I didn't realize that was possible until NearlyCritical provided the link explaining it, so I owe him an apology for doubting his word. Sorry, man. But to encode DivX5 at anamorphic resolutions may or may not be worth it. As bb said, and I implied earlier, you'll take a major quality hit for the same file size. I think that to take advantage of the feature, what were before 2 CD movies, will have to be done for 3 CDs when encoding at anamorphic resolutions.
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