VIZIO Unveils Ultra-Widescreen 21:9 Cinemawide HDTV LED LCDs for the Ultimate Cinematic Experience — Community

#1 Jan 6, 2011 at 4:52 am

<img src="http://www.hdtvmagazine.us/news/images/vizio-ultra-widescreen.jpg" alt="VIZIO Ultra-Widescreen" height="72" width="72" style="float:left; padding:0 5px 5px 0">VIZIO, America's #1 LCD HDTV Company*, revealed today plans to launch Cinemawide HDTV™, 21:9 Cinema aspect ratio models that can display native 2.35:1 ("CinemaScope") movies without any black bars for a true cinematic experience. The ultra widescreen perspective displays movies as designed for the silver screen for an immersive movie experience at home. Each model also features VIZIO Internet Apps™ (VIA) in Cinema mode, which allows users to browse apps side-by-side with 16:9 Full HD content without any compromise in resolution or size. The 50- and 58-inch class size models are Edge Lit Razor LED™ HDTVs with Smart Dimming. VIZIO will also be demonstrating at their private CES showroom a 71-inch class size model with Full Array TruLED™ backlighting for the ultimate in performance.

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#2 Jan 6, 2011 at 7:10 pm

Now this is taunting as hell and something I wondered about; will anybody ever make a dedicated 2.35 aspect ratio display? Wow, somebody really did it!

That said, being all about video standards, I have a myriad of questions...

A feature table at the site
http://www.vizio.com/news/VIZIOUnveilsU ... Experience

Either model is 2560x1080 yielding 2.37 using square pixels and I suspect square is what it is.

So that creates one concern; 1:1 pixel mapping will not work and the quality of scaling will be very important. The good news is the scaler will have 2560 to work with left to right and that is NEW. I remain intrigued!