Talk:Open matte

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[edit] Open matte on Widescreen TVs

With the advent of 1.78:1 television sets, soft matte format may become obsolete. If an open-matte DVD were to be played on a 1.78:1 television set, it would be pillarboxed (thus having vertical black bars on the sides of the screen) and have a lower resolution or squeezed image. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando 22:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Soft matte likely won't because from a production standpoint, it allows reframing in post if necessary - most films don't shoot with a hard matte anyway. Open matte as a video transfer method, I agree, seems to look closer to death with widescreen. That being said, a Super 35 2.39:1 film could transfer open matte to 1.78, so the process likely won't die out completely, but rather morph. Girolamo Savonarola 22:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 4:3 open-matte fullscreen DVDs?

• Someone needs to compile a list of fullscreen DVDs that make use of open-matte (as opposed to pan-and-scanning). Evan1975 08:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)