CineWide™ and CineWide with AutoScope™
GOING BEYOND Home Theater to True Home Cinema
Vidikron’s award winning CineWide™ and CineWide with AutoScope™ technology has created a revolution in faithful movie reproduction, transforming home theater into home cinema.
This proprietary technology provides uncompromised widescreen reproduction of movies
originally filmed in the CinemaScope™ 2.35:1 format. It maintains constant vertical height on the screen just as in a movie theater. When a viewer transitions from 1.78:1 (16:9) program material to superwide 2.35:1, the image simply gets
Conventional Method
A conventional 2.35:1 image displayed
on a 1.78:1 (16:9) screen.
IMAGE AREA
Black bars = lost resolution
CineWide™ Technology
Constant vertical height and full resolution are maintained. 100% of pixels are used.
Black Bars are eliminated.
16:9 IMAGE AREA
2:35:1 image area
wider while full screen height is maintained, eliminating black bars.
This is done through an ingenious combination of software, electronics and precision anamorphic optics. With the AutoScope option, the anamorphic lens is motorized and remote controlled.
With CineWide the projection system is able to use the full pixel array on its DMD™ imaging chips, thereby producing a 2.35:1 image with enhanced resolution and increased brightness. No resolution or image area is lost to useless black bars on the top and bottom of the screen that contain no picture information.
CineWide and AutoScope technology is the talk of the industry.
These are among the awards and acknowledgements we have already received.
Overall Most | Best Video Product | Manufacturer’s | Electronic House | Best New Product |
Creative New Product |
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How it works:
The video processor anamorphically “stretches” the 2.35:1 image vertically to completely fill the display’s imaging chips. This allows all pixels to be used.
2.35:1 Picture on a 16:9 imaging chip | 16:9 Image Area |
Vertical
STRETCH
REMOVES
BLACK BARS
SQUEEZED
Appearance
The anamorphic lens then “stretches” the image width to 2.35:1. Correct geometry is restored, while 100% of the pixels are now used to maintain full resolution and eliminate black bars.
STRETCH
CineWide requires the use of a 2.35:1 or similar aspect ratio superwide format screen.