>>36011141>>36011155Also worth noting that I don't think it's a problem with VLC or MPC, per se. It's just a relic of the era when 4:3 TVs were still the norm even though a lot of movies were originally filmed and screened at 16:9 or even 2.35:1. DVDs' having a 720x480-pixel standard with "squishable" non-square pixels — whether by design or not — ultimately made them a lot more flexible because one storage-dimensions standard could effectively be used for media of nearly all the most common display-aspect ratios (4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1, etc.).
Today's anime are generally displayed at 16:9, hence raws being at 1280x720 most of the time. The irony, however, is that the raw TV feed for most programs (save for some live sports channels) is actually transmitted at 1440x1080, which works out to 4:3, AND half of each frame is removed via interlacing to save even more bandwidth. HDTVs display the picture at 1920x1080 by stretching the picture horizontally and then use deinterlacing algorithms to try to recreate as close to the original picture as it can. Basically, 1080-pixel-high HD live TV isn't truly 1080 pixels high.
There's your not-so-useless but still useless piece of trivia for the day.
