Your TV sucks!

So many movies in 2.4:1 and similarly wide aspect ratios, and even some new TV shows are now formatted this way (Genndy Tartakosky's Primal, the Star Wars shows), yet TV manufacturers continue only to offer flat 1.78:1 (16:9) TVs that make the wider picture more distant with black bars at the top and bottom. It's not as bad as in the 4:3 tube days, but it's not good. They should be 5120x2160 with a very subtle curve that keeps the picture from bulging out at you.

I know most of you watch movies alone. There's no one at your side bothered about the disproportion at an angle. Let's say, for once, you did have someone over. A bro would let their visitor sit in the center and take the side from which the curve of the screen is skewed. A girlfriend? Women can't sit through (your) movies anyway.

If having a square picture with giant black bars at the side when viewing 4:3 content bothers you, simply paint the wall black and you will never see the black bars in the dark again.

It's a conspiracy. The movie industry doesn't want you to have constant image height at home at an affordable price because it would nullify one of the few remaining points of legitimacy the dying cinema has left. If I wanted a bright Epson projector with good HDR to SDR tone mapping and 120 Hz for games, it would be about 14,000 dollars. That's not counting the cost of the big, curved screen. I probably couldn't even get a space big enough for it. Between apartments right now. Would suck having it right behind, since they make noise.

I don't even favor 2.4:1 in movies. It's hell on compositions. When a movie looks good in that ratio, it's in spite of, not because. But I'm gonna watch these movies regardless, so having a screen that accommodates them would be best.

Wow, I didn't know about these modules, that we can theoretically make custom screens with MicroLED. So I could make a 21:9 TV? I'm sure curved frames will be available. I will have much more grey hair by the time I have my 21:9 TV, but looks like it may happen.

Yeah. It’s terrible. My tv is I don’t know how many years old too.

Heh. Speaking of which. I’m watching wishmaster 2 best scenes on YouTube. Great movie!

I love my SONY X900H, 120fps with all the bells and whistles and a nice 7 speaker sound bar attached to it. It's not 135" or anything that crazy, but at 85" I really, probably, don't need anything larger. Although I have been eyeing that 100" Hisense... lol.

Uh, yeah. It's from 2005, made by a brand that no longer exists which was sold exclusively by a retail chain which no longer exists.

But that's ok, and so is format variety. As a lover of old films, I'm accustomed to overlooking things like black-and-white film or black bars to enjoy a good story. It's all gravy.

No, it's the cameras and directors that suck. They know everything is 16:9 but they are determined to push to 100:1 anyway. Even something specifically filmed for Netflix that they know is going to be watched on a TV still has to have at least like 1" of black bars on the top and bottom. These people just can't help themselves. Maybe some kind of trauma is responsible and now they need to make everyone suffer.

Phones are going the other way with vertical videos. They could easily film stuff in 16:9 even when the phone is in portrait mode, and phone people have no problem with 16:9 videos in vertical mode because that's what you see anyway when they have another video pasted on top with someone making slime and another one on the bottom of someone going through a user made parkour map in a game, but they want to ignore normal displays too.

Your TV also sucks for another reason, the native resolution for movie projectors is 4096×2160 but your TV just supports 3840×2160 so everything has to be scaled for your TV and you're missing that extra ~ 553k pixels of detail

I never have that problem with my 50 inch TLC though if watching on my 32 inch Onn then I have to adjust the settings if a movie or show is in the box format with the black bars.

I feel streaming services sell an ultra wide format with black bars for UHD viewing to save on bandwidth as there's less of the 16:9 video to have to account for a variable bitrate. Seems like they're giving you more but they're being cheap.

I would say my TV is pretty adequate. The picture is good enough, and it's pretty big . I'm in no rush to get a new one.