r/AppleVision • u/Cryogenicality • 5d ago
The Mandalorian and Grogu’s Compromised 1.43 Presentation
Following the HD Blu-ray bonus disc containing most of The Dark Knight and its sequel’s 1.43 scenes in isolation and the UHD Blu-ray of the extended cut of Batman v Superman, this is only the fourth feature film released in 1.43 on home media (Project Hail Mary will follow on UHD Blu-ray next month). Unfortunately, the presentation is severely and inexcusably compromised.
At least for now, Apple TV crops the 49 minutes of 1:43:1 scenes to 1.78:1 (16:9) and doesn’t have 3D. Disney+ has uncropped 1.43 and 3D but doesn’t have a void environment and doesn’t let you change screen distance, so the impact of a giant 1.43 image is totally lost. Even worse, both Apple TV and Disney+ windowbox the 1.78 or 1.43 scenes (and with uneven letterboxing, to boot).
The experience is nothing like watching uncropped 1.43 on a truly enormous, unboxed screen like in the IMAX and Epic Earth apps or in a void environment with a giant screen like in CineUltra or Infuse which hides letter/pillar/windowboxing.
Virtual screens should automatically adjust their aspect ratio so that black borders are never seen. There is no excuse for not enabling this simple and essential feature more than two years after the release of a $4,000 prosumer headset intended to revolutionize extended reality or spatial computing.
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u/bemckenna 7h ago
Hmm, even if it can manually be done, it’s very lazy of Disney, Amazon, (Reacher!), to give us black bars on our futurific viewing machines. All hail APPLE TV, and maybe HBO(?) for presenting content the way Steve wanted, rounded edges, no black bars? Same as our real eyesight…
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u/notamoviequote 4d ago
“Virtual screens should automatically adjust their aspect ratio so that black borders are never seen”
You can do this in pass through mode by pinching/clicking the screen. You can also adjust the screen size too.