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Originally Posted by Diamond Ace
My TV has a 1.85:1 (theatric flat) aspect ratio, so all those show up on my screen with black bars.
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Actually it's almost always 1.78:1 (16:9), although I have seen a few oddball models. 1.85:1 movies only fill the screen on a 16:9 TV because of the overscan built into the TV. If there was no overscan, then even a 1.85:1 movie would show narrow, but barely noticeable, black bars. (The image would fill 96% of the height of the screen).