This morning found me driving in to Ashburn for a dentist appointment.
I was disappointed to see that not only is the cute but way too skinny Asian girl not there but the cute girl with big boobs who can’t say Massachusetts was also absent. I’m not sure if this is a permanent thing or not, but the two girls in their place were not nearly as cute.
Still, apparently I’m doing things right, as there were no lectures and I don’t have to go in again for another six months.
Afterwards, as I’d skipped breakfast, I decided to grab an early lunch.
I was going to go to the McDonalds across the street, but on the way there decided instead to hit the Wendy’s across the street from where I used to live.
I’m not really sure why, as I’m not that big of a fan of Wendy’s and their latest ad campaign is the kind of annoyingly retarded ad campaign that makes me inclined to not give any money to the business being advertised.
From there I went grocery shopping and then made my way home.
Our CEO sent out an e-mail confirming that yes, 2000 people are going to get laid off over the next couple of months starting tomorrow, but there were no specifics as to who those people are going to be, so I don’t actually know anything more than I already did.
And it was a year ago today that my dad died.
I think that’s pretty much all I’m going to say about that particular subject.
For some reason I’m finding that the HD DVD movies I have, which have a 16:9 aspect ratio and are at 1080p resolution are still showing letterboxes on my TV, which has a16:9 aspect ration and is at 1080p resolution.
Non-HD DVD movies that are upsampled by the player are not letterboxed.
I must confess that I’m baffled, as I’ve gone through every setting and have searched in vain for any information on the subject online.
I would ask for suggestions from my vast readership, but I know pointless that is, especially since I’ve actually talked to Scott about this already.
In any case, I suppose I should find something productive to do, then not do it.
2 comments:
Your TV has an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. Movies are typically 2.39:1 or 1.85:1. Most movies will still be slightly letterboxed since they are not truly at a 16:9 aspect ratio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)
Ah, but we're not talking "slight" letterboxing. It's pretty major, like what you would get when playing a widescreen movie on a 4:3 TV.
And, as mentioned, non-HD DVD movies display without any letterboxing.
Also, the HD DVD movies explicitly state that their aspect ration is 16:9. Granted, they may well be at a different aspect ratio and are just calling it 16:9, but that begs the question of why I haven't run into this problem with other "16:9" video sources on my TV.
And even more interestingly, all of the non-movie content (DVD menus, piracy warning, studio logos, etc.) on The Bourne Identity takes up the entire screen without letterboxing.
Admittedly, I can set the TV to "Overscan" to fill the screen, but that cuts off footage on all sides and ratehr defeats the purpose.
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