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**Hamucevasiop** · 01-13-2009, 07:46 PM

No DVDs aren't usually exactly 16:9 because the equivalent ratio use in movies is slighty wider, but TV programmes are made in 16:9 so their DVDs will be in that ratio.

Since the advent of HD over here in the states. Before then almost every show was still presented in 4:3 even if it was shot in 16:9. Now I know you guys over there are a good bit behind us in HD programming but many of your shows are in 16:9 even though they are in SD and that is most likely due to the increase in horizontal resolution in the PAL format in general.

01-13-2009, 07:46 PM	#6
Hamucevasiop Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 575 Senior Member	No DVDs aren't usually exactly 16:9 because the equivalent ratio use in movies is slighty wider, but TV programmes are made in 16:9 so their DVDs will be in that ratio. Since the advent of HD over here in the states. Before then almost every show was still presented in 4:3 even if it was shot in 16:9. Now I know you guys over there are a good bit behind us in HD programming but many of your shows are in 16:9 even though they are in SD and that is most likely due to the increase in horizontal resolution in the PAL format in general.
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