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Any film in letterbox/2.35:1 is not 1080p in my opinion, unless you count black bars of course.]]>Sep 28th 2008 12:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 28th 2008 12:37PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 28th 2008 12:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 28th 2008 3:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/
Nah dude, Paul Nick is right. If they are in the film industry, then theres no excuse NOT to want to see the movies you are considering in the BEST quality available for home viewing.
Your comment is complete fail. They ARE the industry you moron.]]>Sep 28th 2008 5:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/
And, just to be clear, I'd be making the same argument if Sony had withdrawn Blu-ray in February, giving the field to HD DVD.

This is just silly.

At one point the studios were shipping special DVD players to academy members so they could ship DVDs with a DRM incompatible with regular DVD players, in an attempt to deal with screeners being used for piracy. I'm surprised they're not doing something similar here anyway.]]>Sep 29th 2008 10:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 29th 2008 10:33AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 28th 2008 1:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 28th 2008 3:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/
These people are not always those interested in technology for its own sake and so may not have upgraded to a high definition disc player. They may have chosen the other format, or they may favour digital downloads/something else.

I think it is a good idea to offer something like this as an *option* vs standard DVDs, it being closer to the cinematic experience. I know BAFTA run screenings in their building for those that like to see the films as intended, although in the case of IMAX films they might have to resort to booking the BFI I suppose :-)

Now onto the specifics of aspect ratio, well the visual effects scenes are reported as being done at up to '5.6K' which means 5616x4096 for the IMAX formatting or about 1.37:1, the other Anamorphic material would nominally be 2.35:1 (for negative/camera aperture). When projected these both get cropped and so the ratios can change, but in neither case can they be 'HD' 16:9 (1.7777...:1) without some kind of black adding or image cropping.]]>Sep 29th 2008 6:13AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 29th 2008 10:35AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/28/warner-delivering-academy-screeners-on-blu-ray-starting-with-ba/Sep 29th 2008 11:40AM