| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | I was looking on my PC Profiler at a movie that I know is widescreen and I noticed that the Video Formats image showed it as 1.33:1. I thought it was strange that I hadn't noticed that it was cropped. But I looked no further.
Some time later I happened to look at the same DVD on my iPad Profiler. And here it showed up as non-anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1!
This confused me no end. How can the same DVD have a different aspect ratio in iPad as compared to the PC. Digging a little deeper now I found that the profile had the video format set to Full Frame and aspect ratio 2.35:1. That is obviously wrong. Ideally Profiler should not accept contradictory settings like that. But the really odd thing is that the two versions of Profiler display a different image for the same video format setting.
Is it a bug? Well, that's debateable. How should contradictory information be displayed? I think it should show as an error, or not show at all. And the final irony - when I checked the disc it turned out that it was actually anamorphic 2.35:1! | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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 | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 |  Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | What you are describing is how it has worked for the PC software for several versions (at least from version 3.0 and up.) The purpose, when used correctly, is to handle DVDs where a person, when they put the DVD into their player, are presented with "Do you want to watch in Full Screen or Widescreen?" This is sometimes done on DVDs so that the same disc can be watched at maximum size on both SD and HD televisions.
The way to correctly use this feature in such a situation is to tick both the widescreen and either the Pan & Scan or Full Frame button and also set a widescreen aspect ratio. In the Audio/Video window, this will change the usual single box into two: one showing widescreen and the other showing fullscreen.
However, this dual-box feature is not built into the iOS version (I do not know if this also the case for the mobile version,) so when this situation arises, it always displays the widescreen ratio. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | The combination is not incorrect if the release contains both a matted and unmatted version of the film. Although I don't think I've seen it with 2.35:1 but I have quite a few releases with both FF/P&S and 1.85:1 versions of the film. It used to be common with some media companies to present the widescreen version on one side of the disc and the full screen version on the other. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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