Can You Please explain to me why TV screen is cut

Oh, that's intentional. It's called a widescreen format, and some DVDs come with it. Oftentimes, the widescreen (which is meant to be seen on wide-screen TVs, and thus looks odd on your standard set) and the fullscreen (which is what you're used to.) Obviously, you or your husband wanted the fullscreen format, but got the widescreen by mistake! Some people like it that way, and it looks terrific on a wide-screen set. I can understand your distress, but let me assure you, it's perfectly normal, if unintentional.

Theaters and television screens have different sizes, and proportions. TV screens are 1.33 to 1, roughly square. Movie theaters are much wider. Something like 1.81 to 1. Many movies are "formatted to fit your tv", in which the movies are cropped down to size. Other movies are presented in the "original aspect ratio", preserving the movie in its entirety. This causes the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Wide-screen tvs exist, but most people use those incorrectly. Used as they're supposed to be, when watching regular programming there would be black bars on the left and right sides. When watching widescreen movies, the movie would use the whole screen. People don't set their tvs up right, and regular programming is stretched to fit the screen, making everyone look short and fat. It hurts the eyes. I prefer widescreen to formatted, personally. You get used to the black bars, and eventually, you don't even notice them.

It's the widescreen version of films that do that. It's not your TV. It's done so you see all of the action etc on the sides. Regular version films usually have some missing on the screen due to the height of the films. Don't worry it's normal for this. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

No. This great. You are watching movie in "Letterbox". In this format you are seeing the movie the way the director wanted you to see it.With the other way t.v. would "Pan and Scan" a scene. They would pick what they thoght was best for you to see and make it the middle of your scene. And you would miss other people in the scene or you would miss the rest of the room.With Letterbox, you see everything.And your big screen t.v. was made for letterbox. Now you can see movies like you would in the theater.It may seem like you are being cheated but you are not.It takes some time to get use to but when you do, you won't want to see a pan and scan film again.

You will notice that there are some movie/film copies which says that it has been formatted to fit the tv screen. When it is this type of copy that you take hold of, the movie when played, will occupy the entirety of your tv screen. When the copy of the movie which is being played has not been adjusted for tv viewing (meaning it is as it is for theater showing), you get that result wherein those big black spaces at the top and bottom of the tv screen appear.

It took me a long time to get used to those "black bars." Now I prefer them. Have you ever seen a movie on your television screen that looks like someone stretched it out vertically? I remember some of the old Dirty Harry movies on VHS had Clint Eastwood looking like he was Plasticman he was stretched so tall. That happens when a movie shot using a widescreen lens has been formatted to fit in a square. So, imagine, if you will, a piece of art that has been painted a big rectangle; take that rectangle and push its edges together it until it makes a square. You can imagine how skewed the picture would be.

They have been making movies both full screen and wide screen since there are people with both types of televisions. If the widescreen is the only one available, the full screen version will come out eventually and just have to wait or vice versa. I think they make the movies that way to satisfy all audiences. I prefer the full screen over the widescreen versions.

The reason is b ecause they are making the Films now for Widescreen and I know it is anoying This is their way of getting People to buy them Actually here in the UK I have noticed that there are not many normal TVs left in the Shop It is mainly widescreen now that they are selling.

Doomsayer is right. Full screen DVDs are for full screen tvs, you know big ones. Widescreen dvds are for widescreen tvs. You got a widescreen tv get a widescreen dvd movie. You got a big tv get a full screen movie dvd.

Oh dear I do not know why this is happening to your television is it an old television as mine does not do this to me as we always have a full screen I do think that if your television is not old then you should have someone come in and have a look at it.

I think this is called letterbox. I am not sure of its purpose. I don't mind it myself. But it does cut out a lot of the picture. But sometimes it lets you concentrate on the specific details of the movie. I saw a short program about this on AMC but can't remember the exact terminology or reasons for this.

hi all the movies are made in two formats. 35 mm and 70 mm. the ones that are 35 mm will occupy the screen completely where as the 70 mm movies will use only the half part of the screen in the center. hope i have ansered your question.

It is the pitz hun, I have the same problem. It just means that the program or movie that he is watching is wide screen. Their is nothing wrong with the tv, I thought that too!

It's called the 'cinema veritae', it's purposedly used for widescreen televison. It doesn't make the movie small, it's just the way it is ;) You can adjust your screen though if you don't want the black borders to appear, I think you can fix that using your remote if it has options like that ;)