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Topic: Is Scope on the way out?
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Scott Jentsch
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From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 10-16-2012 10:08 AM
Vizio just introduced a 21:9 TV in the US this summer:
VIZIO Begins Shipping XVT3D580CM CinemaWide 21:9 HDTV in US (Finally!) -- bigpicturebigsound.com
It's an interesting concept, and I don't think it's completely out in left field, but I can't imagine it really taking off either. Philips took the lead, and after a few years, only Vizio followed. However, in a market looking for distinction between products, going wide certainly does that.
My favorite part of Vizio's implementation is that they make use of the blank space on a 1.78:1 presentation to show extra information if you wish. For example, you could be watching a football game and have an app showing other scores, etc. This is the example given in the article above.
As someone who has a separate movie-watching system, I don't see the need for a 2.4:1 (ok, 2.37:1) screen in my living room, especially if it comes at a price premium. If all other things were equal, I would certainly consider it, as the use of the blank space has some interesting possibilities.
Now that I've had a 2.35:1 screen in my home theater for several months, going wide is a distinction between watching TV and watching a movie.
I think scope still works well as an aspect ratio, and I would never recommend to a theater to install a flat screen and do top and bottom masking. If you don't feel the image is big enough when showing flat movies on a scope screen, that's a problem with the room, not the aspect ratio. If you have a room which just can't handle the smaller size for flat presentations, then put in a 1.85:1 screen and never show scope movies in that dinky room. Your customers deserve better than a letterboxed presentation.
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