Comments on: Are Extra-Widescreen 2.35:1 TVs the Future?

By: Rohan Fisher

Rohan Fisher — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:15:24 +0000

Manufactures of TV sets and optical media should come together, so within ten years ultra wide screen sets become common place. My Sharp Aquos blu ray player can be set to play on ultra wide TV sets. But there is no point of going ultra wide, until TV sets have a resolution of 2160p. And to play 2160p discs manufactures have to standardize (beyond blu ray) discs – in other words 500Gb discs that can be read by green or ultra violet lasers. And would HDMI 3 be capable of transmitting 2160p?

By: Rohan Fisher

Rohan Fisher — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:06:49 +0000

I am lucky to be the owner of a Sharp Aquos Bluray player, and accept 2.35 ratio right up to 4.0. Ten years, I remembered reading about Philips flat panel TVs. It has taken ten years for Philips to come up with the 2.35 TV set. I think it is ridiculous for TV makers to make 1.78 TV sets, when most movies are 2.35. However, if these 21.9 TV sets are going to be slightly future proofed, they will need to process 2160i. Ten years ago, we were happy with a 576i DVD player. But in today’s 1080i world, a standard DVD is absolute crap. To conclude my argument, 21.9 TV will have to process 2160i video. I can’t wait to see what 2160i world would looks like.

By: John

John — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:22:07 +0000

I see a lot of comments about pillarboxed views and dislike of this. Don’t you realise that in a cinema there are black curtains on the left and right of the screen that are pulled in and out to adjust the aspect from 4:3 to 16:9 to 2.35:1 etc. I believe that’s pillarboxing isn’t it?