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Originally Posted by speedythecat
Is it my imagination or is the current "trend" in dvd movies 2.35:1 and 2.40:1 more than it was a few years back?
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It's not really anything to do with DVD... it's the film studios. These days, movies are getting released in their native (theatrical) aspect ratio more and more, so if a film was originally shot in anamorphic scope (2.35:1), it'll be released on DVD in that ratio as well.
My TV has a 1.85:1 (theatric flat) aspect ratio, so all those show up on my screen with black bars. I usually mess around with my TV displays to stretch the image and fill up the whole screen; it doesn't look too bad that way, and is usually favorable to the black bars.