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Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Devil and Max Devlin widescreen?
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:25 am
by ichabod
Does anyone own or know of the UK releases of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes or The Devil and Max Devlin are widescreen. Disney is claiming they are, but they also said that the Gnome Mobile was widescreen and we know what happened there!
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:48 am
by 2099net
The UK Devil and Max Devlin is widescreen. Not sure if it's exactly 1.85:1 as claimed, but most of the time these tend to be 1.78:1 anyway.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:37 pm
by MickeyMouseboy
Devil and Max Devlin is an 80s movie so the 1.85:1 ratio seems to be right. Older Disney movies from the 50s-some of the 70s used a 1.78:1 - 1.75:1 Ratio
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:01 am
by Chernabog
No the UK version of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is not widescreen - it´s plain Fullscreen, the same as the US release.
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:27 am
by ichabod
Thanks, for your help guys!
Typical that The computer wore tennis shoes would be FS, it's not the first time they've claimed a DVD is WS and it isn't, it 's the Gnome Mobile saga all over again!
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:16 am
by disneyunlimited
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is "open matte" - just zoom in on your widescreen TV and it will look the same as it did in the cinema (i.e. 1.78:1)
If you don't have a widescreen telly just cover up the top and bottom of the screen!
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:03 am
by ichabod
disneyunlimited wrote:The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is "open matte" - just zoom in on your widescreen TV and it will look the same as it did in the cinema (i.e. 1.78:1)
If you don't have a widescreen telly just cover up the top and bottom of the screen!
So the Computer Wore Tennis shoes was open Matte!
That's OK then, i don't mind buying a fullscreen DVD if the film was open matte.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:16 pm
by deathie mouse
ichabod wrote:So the Computer Wore Tennis shoes was open Matte!
That's OK then, i don't mind buying a fullscreen DVD if the film was open matte.
Remember that most standart (flat/spherical) widescreen movies (1.66/1.75/1.85) are shot in open matte cus they are shot in Academy sound cameras without modifcation so potentially most 4:3 versions of them might end in some kind of open matted-ness-y framing..
So maybe renting and trying the zooming/masking on a particular title might be a good idea
