![]() ![]() So part of your choice of screen format will depend on the type of material you watch the most, and how you prefer to manage the black bars and black pillars. For the most part, the vast majority of widescreen viewing material you are likely to have on your screen will be in 1.78, 1.85, or 2.4. However, movies in these odd formats are the exception rather than the rule. Movies such as Patton and South Pacific were done in 2.20, and they will appear on a 2.4 screen with small black columns on each side. Films like Battle of the Bulge, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Fred Astaire's Daddy Long Legs were done in 2.55, and they will have small black bars on the 2.4 screen. But occasionally you will encounter variants that are not quite 2.4. (By the way, if you end up opting for a 1.85 format screen instead of conventional 16:9, the black bars on 2.4 material are reduced by about an inch, which is another minor advantage to this variant.)Īll 2.4 format movies will fit the 2.4 frame of the screen perfectly with no black bars. That is enough to cause many people to go with a 2.4 format screen instead of 16:9. A 2.4 film shown on this screen will have 7.6" black bars above and below the image. On a 120" screen, the image is 59" in height and 105" in width. If you watch these films on a 16:9 screen, you end up with somewhat larger black bars at the top and bottom of the image. As examples, the following movies were filmed in the 2.4 format. Most of them are dramas or the big action/adventure films as opposed to, say, romantic comedies, but 2.4 films are made in all genres. But of course many movies are done in the wider screen 2.4 format. We just looked at a list of movies done in 1.78 and 1.85. ![]()
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