Adventures In Babysitting DVD from Amazon US......borders ?!

[s8n]

hi members i got a problem , i bought the movie Adventures In Babysitting from Amazon US ( shipped and sold by Amazon ) i burned it for my sister and tested it. Interestingly both original and burn have got borders on all 4 sides.


ive obtained a DVD-Rip and its full and wide and on Youtube clips the same , ive tried playing it on my PC , PS3 and mums DVD player same shit.


anyone know whats happening ?


im thinking ill get the UK Region 2 version as well to see how that is

[theclaw]

Non-anamorphic content uses the middle of a 4:3 space.

Same effect as GameCube version Resident Evil 4, if you remember that.

[s8n]

hi claw....................


this is off of Youtube and like mine exactly





although the DVD-Rip looks like the below









im thinking theres different presses of this movie


Thor's a homo

[theclaw]

DVD-rip doesn't mean much, rips aren't licenced releases. Whoever ripped it may have deleted the bars of nothingness.

[isiolia]

anyone know whats happening ?


im thinking ill get the UK Region 2 version as well to see how that is

theclaw is right on the money, it's a non-anamorphic release. You've got a 4:3 frame with widescreen bars baked in. So you're seeing those, plus the black bars on the sides if you're watching on a widescreen display, resulting in borders on all sides.

It's not that uncommon to find DVDs like that. Some films wound up getting a later release with an anamorphic picture, but plenty didn't. Far as I've seen, Adventures in Babysitting only got the one DVD release in the U.S., which was non-anamorphic. A (good) DVD rip would likely cut the black bars off to save on file size. Alternatively, the Blu-ray release got a decent HD transfer, so you may have downloaded something converted from that.

Personally, if you're buying the movie again anyway, I'd just buy the Blu-ray.

[Anapan]

If it needs to be on a DVD disc, since you already paid for the licence and do not plan to re-distribute...

I'd suggest downloading a blu-ray torrent and re-author it yourself using ConvertXtoDVD or similar. It'll look much better than the crappy disc you bought if you make it 2-pass.

[bmoc]

I have a few dvds with this problem. Luckily my TV has a few different zoom settings that I can use to make it look right.