Cinderella...Widescreen?

[DLBDS]

Has Cinderella been released in a widescreen edition? I was going to get it for DD for Christmas but it doesn't seem to be available in this format. Why are DVDs still being produced with the old 1:33:1 aspect ratio (full screen format)?! It's just stupid.

 

[salmoneous]

Why are DVDs still being produced with the old 1:33:1 aspect ratio (full screen format)?! It's just stupid.

Because the movie itself is 1.33:1 (technically, it's 1.37:1). If you want to watch in on a 16:9 TV, you either have to watch the movie with it's original aspect ratio (and have bars on the sides), or butcher Walt's creation to fit your screen. Disney has put the movie out there as Walt created it. But if you want to fill your screen, you can use zoom or stretch modes to do so.

 

[chisnpeke]

Why are DVDs still being produced with the old 1:33:1 aspect ratio (full screen format)?! It's just stupid.

Because not everyone has a "wide screen" tv. That's why. I don't like the two big bars at the top of the screen. Some of them are so big that combined they would take up half of the entire screen. It's not stupid. I am glad the option of non wide screen is out there.

 

[bicker]

Actually salmoneous is correct. Within a few years, everything will be presented widescreen if they were produced widescreen, but if they were produced with the 4:3 aspect ratio then many (but not all) networks will broadcast them with pillar bars. There are a few networks (TNT, A&E, etc.) who regularly reframe old programs to fill the wide screen, but even then, they don't always do it the same way. Sometimes, they just stretch it horizontally (yuck). Other times, they do a better job and zoom in, but then you could have some things cut-off at the top and bottom.

Incidentally, a lot of folks on the high-end video forums I visit HATE the practice of filling the screen. So there is continually a fight between those folks and folks like DLBDS who want to see their widescreen televisions entirely filled. I don't actually think either side will eventually "win" but rather there always will be some places that go one way and some places that go the other way. (Of course, as time goes on, 4:3 aspect ratio source material will become less and less of an issue.)