B-52 dijo:Según ese enlace, el AR será de 2.75:1.
Everything behind the creation of this Blu-ray set has been meticulously prepared and the final result, with lossless audio is, in a single word:
Extraordinary!
There is a dynamism and visceral nature to this release, that I've never noted before, especially in "Smilebox." With almost six times the resolution of a normal 35mm release, HTWWW pushes the limits of Blu-ray to eek out every last drop of resolution.
My hat is off to everyone involved in the creation of this tiny digital masterpiece which beautifully reproduces for the home theater environment, the huge and brilliant undertaking that is How the West Was Won.
Absolutely unique! They just don't come any better.
skywalkeres dijo:Review de la edicón USA en HighDefDiscNews. Indican zona A.
F_Elliott dijo:pues confirman el 2.89:1
que curiosidad ese SMILEBOX presentation, aunque no se si funcionara el "juego" en una pantalla de salon
Warner Bros. went out of their way to present the movie as best as they could. The copy is pristine, with hardly a trace of age, excessive grain, noise, scratches, flecks, or specks. What's more, the studio engineers not only present it in a normal widescreen but in a special "SmileBox" transfer that attempts to duplicate the way the film might have looked in a Cinerama theater with its gigantic wraparound screen. I found this "SmileBox" presentation fairly awkward, however, the "SmileBox" title a description of the way the image curls up (and down) at the sides to simulate the edges of the screen being closer to the viewer. I also found some degree of distortion at the sides of the picture, so I watched the movie in its regular home-theater form.
The video engineers use a pair of dual-layer Blu-ray BD50s and a VC-1 encode to do up the two versions of the film properly. As I said earlier, the studio claims on the packaging that the home-theater screen ratio is 2.89:1, the same as I measured (given about 5% overscan in my current TV), the widest film I have ever watched in my home. More important, the picture quality is excellent. The Technicolor comes up looking very natural, the definition looks fine, and, given that the filmmakers shot much of the film on location, the screen looks free of much grain, except that which is undoubtedly inherent to the original print. There were a few moments where I noticed the three separate screen divisions, but it's a concern hardly worth mentioning.
NEGATIVE SPECS: Max Aspect Ratio: 2.59:1
PRINT SPECS: Max Aspect Ratio: 2.59:1 (Due to architectural limitations in some theatres, cinematographers were cautioned to protect their composition for a reduced height, yielding around a 2.65:1 ratio. Most theatres could handle the full height image.)
The specifications for Cinerama are different than those for Cinemiracle and Kinopanorama. For the sake of clarity, the complete specifications for Cinerama are as follows, with corrections and clarifications added as needed: Camera and Negative: Film(s): 3 x 35mm; Lenses: 3 x 27mm; Effective overall useable camera frame width perftoperf 3 x 35mm: 2.895"; Distance between matchlines: 0.9478"; Overlap from adjacent perfs for each film: 0.051"; Camera aperture height for each film: 1.116"; Camera aperture width for each film (runs into perfs): 1.014"; Effective aspect ratio of camera exposed area (runs into perfs): 2.61 x 1; Effective aspect ratio of useable camera exposed area: 2.59 x 1; Optical printer aperture height for each film: 1.115"; Optical printer aperture width for each film: 0.996"; Perfs per frame: 6; Camera perf style: Bell & Howell (BH), but Dubray Howell (DH) preferred; Camera linear film speed: 146.25 ft. per min., except for the two MGM feature films which were 135 ft. per min.; Useable horizontal angular visual field to be used for projected image: 146 degrees; Useable vertical angular visual field to be used for projected image: 55 degrees; Individual camera horizontal angular visual field: 50 degrees; Projectable image overlap: 2 degrees. Release print: Film(s): 3 x 35mm; Projected image height for each film: 1.088"; Projected image width for each film: 0.985"; Effective overall maximum projectable frame width: 2.8806"; Effective overall maximum projectable frame aspect ratio: 2.65 x 1; Perfs per frame: 6; Projector perf style: Kodak Standard (KS); Projector speed: 26 frames per second, except for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and How the West Was Won and Holiday In Spain which were 24 frames per second; Projector linear film speed: 146.25 ft. per min., except for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and How the West Was Won and Holiday In Spain which were 135 ft. per min.; Screen curvature: 146 degrees or 120 degrees; Sound system: 35mm interlocked magnetic; Sound format: Discrete stereophonic; Soundtrack reproducer linear speed: Same as projector; Soundtracks: Seven; Recorded soundtrack width (each track): 0.063"; Soundtrack reproducer head width (each track): 0.050"; Soundtrack assignments to speaker channels (normal): 1 - Left, 2 - Left Center, 3 - Center, 4 - Right Center, 5 - Right, 6 - Right wall surround, 7 - Left wall surround; Alternate configuration soundtrack assignments to speaker channels: Same as Normal except 6 - Right wall surround and left wall surround, 7 - Back wall surround. The distance between the matchlines for films made after This Is Cinerama was slightly further apart by a few thousandths of an inch due to slight differences between camera #1 and the later Cinerama cameras.
* From: Martin Hart <thanksforthe@xxxxxxxx>
* Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:46:35 -0500
The new DVD/Blu-Ray release of "How The West Was Won" is going to
confuse the hell out of people who try to get definitive statistics on
aspect ratios and other non-essential things.
Fact: The maximum practical aspect ratio for Cinerama is 2.59:1. As
such, there is still some image area on the print that is not shown on
the screen.
Fact: The DVD and Blu-Ray discs show HTWWW with an aspect ratio of
2.89:1. There is no cropping of the top or bottom of the image beyond
what is normally cut off by the normal projector aperture dimensions.
So where did this extra image come from?
The Cinerama camera has aperture dimensions that allows the photographed
image to actually go beyond the perforations of the film negative. The
Cinerama film printers do not copy that much width to the release print.
Early in the preparation of the new video release of the film, Dave
Strohmaier recommended that WHV scan the maximum possible width from the
negatives in order to have more real estate to work with when working
with the panel joins. So all three films were scanned perf to perf.
This made no dimensional difference between the center panel and the two
side panels but it did provide previously unseen image on the extreme
edges of the Able and Charlie panels.
This was possible only because WHV scanned from the original camera
negatives. Had they scanned from an interpositive or internegative it
would not be possible to get as much width in each panel because of the
normal cropping designed into the Cinerama system.
It's that simple.
Marty
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O sea, que Warner, en un ataque de "porqueyolovalguismo" ha alterado el formato de imagen que el director tenía en mente para proyectar. ¿Eso no lo llamamos "mutilación" en otros casos?Archibald Alexander Leach dijo:Warner ha optado por escanear el negativo completo, incluyendo la imagen que hay más allá de las perforaciones y que las impresoras ópticas no pueden copiar al generar el interpositivo. El resultado es que se muestra más imagen que la disponible en las copias cinematográficas y, por tanto, que la proyectada en las sala.
ricky dijo:Pero que ganas, qué gaaaaaanas tengo de que me llegue ya, ¡la leche!!!...![]()
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F_Elliott dijo:el Cinerama se veia tan exageradamente curvado como ese SMILEBOX? es q incluso personajes en el centro de la pantalla se deforman...
por otro lado, la calidad de imagen parare brutal. Recuerdo pases televisivos y es... otra peli!