Film/Beeldformaat

Ik mis beeldformaat: 2:40:1 om te selecteren.
Deze kwam ik tegen bij een Indiana Jones DVD “Kingdom of the crystal skull”.

I miss screen format: 2:40:1 to select.
I came across this on an Indiana Jones DVD “Kingdom of the crystal skull”.

There are more missing, it's just 16: 9, so use that.
There are more than just what you mention, but it is just widescreen, so 16: 9.
Otherwise it should have been 16: 9 - 1.85: 1 or something in the list, but that creates confusion and not all carriers report 1.85: 1 but only 16: 9 or 4: 3.

At Catawiki we now indeed limit ourselves to "widescreen" (16: 9) and "full screen" (4: 3). That's the summary used on movie covers to simply explain to the audience what it roughly looks like on their television.
In reality there are several aspect ratios that can be used for movies (further in English because I didn't feel like translating it all).
These are all of them:
1.33: 1 35 mm original silent film ratio, commonly known in TV and video as 4: 3. Also standard ratio for MPEG -2 video compression. This format is still used in most personal video cameras today. It is the standard 16mm and Super 35mm ratio.
1.37: 1 35 mm full-screen sound film image, nearly universal in movies between 1932 and 1953. Officially adopted as the Academy ratio in 1932 by AMPAS . Rarely used in theatrical context nowadays, but occasionally used for other context.
1.43: 1 IMAX format. Imax productions use 70 mm wide film (the same as used for 70 mm feature films), but the film runs through the camera and projector sideways. This allows for a physically larger area for each image.
1.50: 1 The aspect ratio of 35 mm film used for still photography when 8 perforations are exposed. Usually called 3: 2. Also the native aspect ratio of VistaVision.
1.56: 1 Widescreen aspect ratio 14: 9. Often used in shooting commercials etc. as a compromise format between 4: 3 (12: 9) and 16: 9, especially when the output will be used in both standard TV and widescreen.
1.66: 1 35 mm Originally a flat ratio invented by Paramount Pictures, now a standard among several European countries; native Super 16 mm frame ratio. (5: 3, sometimes expressed more accurately as “1.67”.)
1.75: 1 Early 35mm widescreen ratio, primarily used by MGM and Warner Bros. between 1953 and 1955, and since abandoned.
1.78: 1 Video widescreen standard (16: 9), used in high-definition television, one of three ratios specified for MPEG -2 video compression. Also used in some personal video cameras.
1.85: 1 35 mm US and UK widescreen standard for theatrical film. Introduced by Universal Pictures in May, 1953.
2.00: 1 Original SuperScope ratio, also used in Univisium. Used as a flat ratio for some American studios in the 1950s, abandoned in the 1960s, but recently popularized by the Red One camera system.
2.20: 1 70 mm standard. Originally developed for Todd-AO in the 1950s.
2.35: 1 35 mm anamorphic prior to 1970, used by CinemaScope ("" Scope ") and early Panavision. The anamorphic standard has subtly changed so that modern anamorphic productions are actually 2.39, but often referred to as 2.35 anyway, due to old convention.
2.39: 1 35 mm anamorphic from 1970 onwards. Sometimes rounded up to 2.40: 1 Often commercially branded as Panavision format or "Scope.
2.55: 1 Original aspect ratio of CinemaScope before optical sound was added to the film in 1954. This was also the aspect ratio of CinemaScope 55.
2.59: 1 Cinerama at full height (three specially captured 35 mm images projected side-by-side into one composite widescreen image).
2.66: 1 Full frame output from Super 16 mm negative when an anamorphic lens system has been used.
2.76: 1 MGM Camera 65. Used only on a handful of films between 1956 and 1964, such as Ben-Hur (1959).
4.00: 1 Rare use of Polyvision, three 35 mm 1.33 images projected side by side.
Source: wikipedia

Do you think it is important that you can choose them Eric?

I once looked at the Ben-Hur movie I have and it says that the screen format on which is being broadcast is 16: 9, but the actual picture you are seeing is 2.70: 1…
So which choice should you make? Isn't it about the picture on the TV? Or do you really want to know how big the black bars you see are…
BDW 2 : 70 apparently deviates from the official standard… :-(

Do you think it is important that they are chosen Eric?
No, it seems a bit exaggerated to me personally, but if a lot of people ask for it, of course.

Not every publisher puts that on the carrier…: S
Some don't even have the other format or even none at all.
The more you put down, the more unclear it can get. Just leave it as it is now, done. Please no more choices.

As mentioned before, just 4: 3 or 16: 9 should be enough. You will see the rest when you go and watch…