16:9 & the DVX100B

DerrickTempleton said:
Noble Robot - I definitely see your side to this issue. HD really isn't practical for a lot of people. But what killed me, really KILLED ME, was that I got to borrow my friend's HVX, shoot a short movie, and have to screen it to my school on a DVD playing through a projector. It looked like total garbage. It would have made no difference if I shot it with a DVX.

If everyone just took the plunge, HD's price would go down a lot faster! It's stuck in a cycle because no one wants to pay for it, so they aren't selling enough. At this rate we'll destroy the earth from overpopulation, greenhouse effect, and war before we get the type of technology I dreamed of as a kid. I want my hovercars and really cool TVs that bend all around my head and look better than real life. And I don't want to be old and senile when it happens!

...yeah mine was a rant too.
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Hmm... I'd like to see your short. Even when the HD content is moved to SD content, it still looks better than DVX footage on DVD.
 
I shot up by Lake Ontario, and I had a lot of waves in the first scene. They became totally pixelated from the mpeg2 compression. Also, the sky's grade from light blue to dark blue lost a lot of color depth. Wide shots had pixelation around moving objects. Anything thin, like tree branches, floor tiles, etc got jagged or pixelated borders. It still was probably a little better than DVX, but the bottom line is DVD is a terrible format.
 
Question:

On a widescreen TV, if you have a cropped 4:3 image feed, with black bars making your content 16:9, will the widescreen TV make it so your video takes up the entire screen, or will it have black bars. I'm sort of confused on the subject. Sorry for the amateur question, just never got that cleared.

-Drew
 
That's if you edit on a 16:9 timeline, I've watched letterboxed material on a Widescreen TV not take up the whole screen because it was broadcasted on a 4:3 station. So you basically get a zoomed out 16:9 image. so If you edit in a 16:9 timeline and zoom in on the image to make the 4:3, 16:9 then it would work.
 
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