Batman VHS vs. DVD

[eledoremassis02]

I always found it interesting how they crop 16:9 to make it 4:3. Often they have to expose more of the top and bottom of this video and sometimes you can see boom mikes and such. Anyway..I stitched some screen captures from movies I have on DVD and VHS to see what exactly is cut and by how much. Here's what I did.

[Paul (ral)]

gosh, there really is something to be said for 4:3 then!

[Kamdan]

Excellent work. I always wanted to combine the two versions to create one whole picture, but I don't think the full screen version is always stabilized in one position. That's the reason I kept my bare-bones DVD.

[Grissom]

Intersting you guys brought up this topic, I remember years ago watching a small part of Batman '89 on scifi, in widescreen. They called it GBX widescreen and it looked very much like  16:9 aspect ratio. And there didn't seem to stretch it or really cut off the sides etc., I'm still wondering how they did that.

[Furstmobile]

Aspect ratios, pfft. There is only one true deciding factor.

http://www.youtube.com/v/b7b0L70p8sg

I CANNOT watch a Warner Bros movie without a Warner Bros ball cap.

[eledoremassis02]

you win