Blue Ray keeps chnaging between black bars and no bars???

[Tiggsy]

Watching Dark Knight on BR (ps3) and the image keeps jumping between having black bars top and bottom. Sees the change between scenes.....any reason why it would do that? (also - on a wide screen TV why does the image even need bars? isnt widescreen 16.9?

[LaSarthe+Back]

The Dark Knight is one of the few movies that changes its aspect ratio throughout the film.

It's normal... for this one anyway.

The first scene is 16:9, and it jumps between this and 2.35:1. This needs the black bars to fit the width of the picture on to the screen.

Think of the 16:9 image on a 4:3 TV. We used to have that problem. The problem we now have is 2.35:1 images on 16:9 screens. With a fourway masking projector screen, this is allways taken care of

Edited by LaSarthe+Back on Saturday 26th September 23:33

[Tiggsy]

I'm staggered!!!! What a crazy notion.....do film makers not think a changing aspect ration will annoy video viewers???????

[LaSarthe+Back]

Maybe like the idea of HDMI with content protection "enhancing" the viewer's experience???

[OldSkoolRS]

I found that I could cut out this AR change by setting my VP to crop the image down to 2.35:1 I didn't feel like I missed anything (in fact I wasn't that impressed with the whole film myself) and I didn't have to mess about changing my PJ's settings while watching. I gather some other films are going this route but I hope it's not anything I'm bothered about watching.......

[sixspeed]

The "full-screen" scenes are those that were filmed in IMAX.

[OldSkoolRS]

sixspeed said:

The "full-screen" scenes are those that were filmed in IMAX.

These scenes were very good quality due to the IMAX source, but unfortunately watching this film on a 2.35:1 screen is a pain, so I hope it doesn't become too common.

[Tiggsy]

agree - the images were stunning (city vistas in 50") but annoying to then flick back