As said , its a case of the movie screenis wider than your TV, a 2.35:1 TV screen would be mad & epxensive for any decent size. <BR><BR>16x9 is a compromise in escence.<BR><BR>BTW movie screens ...

And of course there’s all the tech involved in getting 2.35:1 images onto the screen in the first place: DVDs and BDs aren’t that ratio, though you could achieve it by throwing away pixels.

This increases the vertical resolution of the movie.<P>It also causes distortion, though, because a 2.35:1 or 16:9 picture is stretched vertically to fit a 4:3 area.<P>DVD players which support ...

2.35:1 A display aspect ratio used for cinematic display, also known as the Academy ratio. While movies can be displayed in any number of aspect ratios, television (and computer screens from 2011 ...