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16x9 110 Screen

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Old Fart

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Thinking about buying one of these units. When you have wide screen content, is it just like I was watching on a Blue Ray player, bars on top and bottom? Or does it fit the content to fill the 16x9 screen. Thanks
 
If there is something different than 16x9, it won't fill the screen. 4x3 will have bars on the sides and 2.4:1 will have bars across the top. You can buy a video processor like the Envy Pro that will automatically stretch the video to fill the screen, but this can cause picture distortion which some don't mind but others don't like. BTW, you have the same issue with any ratio screen, so even if you had a 2.4:1 ratio screen, then you would have bars on the side when watching 16x9 material. By the way, I have a lightly used 16x9 110" Seymour acoustically transparent screen that I recently replaced with a 2.4x1 screen. I haven't gotten around to posting it for sale, so PM me if interested.
 
You can also add top masking and have the best of both worlds for that size screen. Best to have a video processor to manipulate the image (eg move the image to the bottom of the screen). Here is my 16:9 screen with masking down.

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SJHT said:
You can also add top masking and have the best of both worlds for that size screen. Best to have a video processor to manipulate the image (eg move the image to the bottom of the screen). Here is my 16:9 screen with masking down.

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This is what I do as well. I have my Radiance Pro shift letterboxed content to the bottom of my screen and then I have a top mask. Works great, looks great. I have a motorized (roll-down) screen in my theater, so 4-way masking was not doable. I did have an intention of adding variable side masks so that I could do more of a constant-area masking approach, but our first attempt at a custom mechanism for that was unsuccessful and I've not had the time and motivation to try v2, although I have all the parts sitting on a shelf. Someday, perhaps. I should at least move the v1 side masks to the proper position for 4:3 content for when I watch classic films.
 
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