Mag illustrations ?
Hi
love the mag and all the info i get from it.
I notice that when you show new tv's and do reviews that the screen always shows a movie in mid play,
how come there are never any black bars top and bottom?? I have a Toshiba HD E1 for HD and a pc for Blu-ray and always get the bars unless the movie is filmed in other than 2.35 which seems the norm these days.
I find loosing 2" top and bottom a waste of a screen although i am now used to seeing the movies I have "as the director intended " !
Camera trickery ? or a secret way of viewing ?
Bc.
Andrew
thanks for the reply, your answer was as i suspected, but i live in hope that one day we will not waste a good tv and rid ourselves of the black bars !
Only when they start making movies in the same format as the screens, not the more usual 1.85:1 or 2.35:1
this also explains why they're always of the newest films, i had started wondering if you somehow managed to get stuff in the cinema to use as test material!
Indeed. You'll find we usually say in the reviews what movies we used as test material.
i quite like scanning the TV photos to see what movie that not out for months has been used 
i think quantum of solice was used in one issue recently......maybe its an idea for a competition
timwileman:maybe its an idea for a competition
You're a bit obsessed with competitions, aren't you?
yep...i like having the chance to win stuff
timwileman:i think quantum of solice was used in one issue recently.
Any excuse for Daniel Craig to feature 
Clare Newsome:timwileman:i think quantum of solice was used in one issue recently.Any excuse for Daniel Craig to feature
i thought Kev has him stashed away for your own private viewing pleasure.........
Yes, i had noticed, but you never know what nice perks you guys getAndrew Everard:Indeed. You'll find we usually say in the reviews what movies we used as test material.
fast eddie:Yes, i had noticed, but you never know what nice perks you guys get
Well, there's the chance to chat to all you lovely people on t'interweb all day and night, and...
No, actually that's about it.
Andrew Everard:fast eddie:Yes, i had noticed, but you never know what nice perks you guys getWell, there's the chance to chat to all you lovely people on t'interweb all day and night, and...
No, actually that's about it.
You're a glass half empty kinda guy aintcha?
Possitively optimistic compared to me. I keep wondering who stole my damn glass!
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Because it's all but impossible to photograph a TV well with a real image on the screen, the pictures from movies or TV shows are 'stripped in' onto the screen at the page design stage. I think just about every picture you'll ever see of a TV set is done this way.
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