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Old 08-15-2008, 08:55 AM
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The black bars are encoded as part of the picture. Including black bars, every disc has a resolution of 1920x1080.

On a movie with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, the active movie image uses approximately 1920x800 of those pixels.
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