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How Can You Watch 16:9 TV in Your Cinema 4K Theater?
While 80% of the most popular movies and an ever-increasing list of streaming titles are made in the cinema format, today’s projectors also give you many options for watching 16:9 TV programming such as sports without moving the anamorphic lens. All virtually instantaneous. All at the push of a button.
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16:9 Classic. Complete 16:9 content is displayed with full vertical resolution but reformatted using enough horizontal pixels to preserve the 16:9 format. Aspect Modes: Sony: “Squeeze”. JVC: “Anamorphic B”. Digital Projection: “4:3 Narrow“. Epson: “Horizontal Squeeze”. |
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16:9 Wide (Stretched). Content is optically stretched linearly to deliver full 3840 x 2160 performance on a 2.4:1 screen. Aspect Modes: Sony: “Normal”. JVC: “Anamorphic Off”. Digital Projection: “Normal“. Epson: “Auto“. |
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16:9 Full (Cropped). The image fills the entire screen with full 3840 horizontal resolution and with no stretched appearance by cropping 12% from both top and bottom. Aspect Modes: Sony: “V-Stretch“. JVC: “Anamorphic A“. Digital Projection: “TheaterScope“. Epson: “Anamorphic Wide“. |
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Note 1. When 2.4:1 movies are perfectly framed by your screen then 13 out of 2160 pixel rows of 4K16:9 content will project onto both the top and bottom screen border. This may impact the visibility of very small characters if they are placed close to the edge such as with sports broadcast scores. |
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