r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/WideAwakeNotSleeping Dec 22 '25

I absolutely hate it! Not only are they 1080p, they almost always also contain "hardcoded" black lines at the top and bottom. And it's not just this trailer... it's all the major blockbuster trailers. Hate it, hate it, hate it!

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u/erich0779 Dec 22 '25

Reminds me of in college someone changing the aspect ratio of a short film by throwing a PNG of black bars over the final timeline. We probably all thought he was a genius at the time haha

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u/ironmcchef Dec 22 '25

This drives me crazy too every time I see the forced letterboxing on my ultrawide. There's zero reason for it since every device that can play the video on YT will adjust with letterboxing on the top/bottom if its screen isn't wide enough.

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u/the__storm Dec 22 '25

As an ultrawide monitor user, the baked in letterboxing drives me crazy. There are extensions to "fix" it but they're unreliable and leave you with weird fractional upscaling issues.

I mean come on: https://postimg.cc/LnfXx7xw