Wide or Standard Screen?

[Chris]

Whenever I buy a DVD I always try and get the widescreen version of a movie because I like to see the entire scene as I would at a theater. After a couple of minutes you don't even noticed the top and bottom of the screen isn't full.

Does anyone else do this?

Chris

[CopyCat]

Well if you don't watch it in wide screen, your missing part of the movie...

[aperio]

Originally Posted by Chris

Whenever I buy a DVD I always try and get the widescreen version of a movie because I like to see the entire scene as I would at a theater. After a couple of minutes you don't even noticed the top and bottom of the screen isn't full.

Does anyone else do this?

Chris

Same here. I used to hate widescreen back in the days that I had a smaller tube type set... but with the more appropriately proportioned lcd screen, I love it. I always grab the widescreen version now and the times where the black bars are there, I"m like you and don't even see them after a minute or so.

Widescreen all the way, baby.

[spiderpig]

Definitely widescreen. You miss something like 1/3 the movie if you only watch it in full screen. Entire details can be lost, and probably were back when the switch was being made. I like the double DVD sets that give you the option (lots of Disneys do this). Sometimes I want details, sometimes I want to use all the TV screen.

[Stubblecat]

This thread need not exist in this day and age.

I think it's still funny as sh*t that people still go into Wal*Mart stores and proceed to buy widescreen TVs and 'fullscreen' DVDs.

I tend to put quotes around the word 'fullscreen', because I choose to call it what we called it back in the laserdisc days: Pan and Scan.

[Stubblecat]

...And while I'm ranting... This is another reason that I've beginning to completely love Blu-Ray.

All BD titles are the original aspect ratio. If you pan-and-scan a movie you automatically destroy any picture quality you had, so anything but widescreen for BD would defeat the purpose of the technology.

[AKmaro1]

Oh yes, widescreen all the way! In fact I think It'll be funny a few years down the road, when all the people that bought these movies in "fool-screen" start buying the newer HDTVs that are rectangular in shape anyhow, then they'll play back their movies and will wonder why these bars are on the sides of the screen (duh). Then they might just then start to see the light.

[Lunatik21]

Personally I love widescreen and after working in Sears for a while I definitely want a Blu-Ray player when I can afford it now that its FINALLY the only high definition type in production

[Todd]

I think a better question is, does anyone here like full screen?

One area that is troubling is with older films shot in a 1:33 or 1:66 aspect ratio. What do you do for 16:9 TVs? I hate watching a narrow version, I hate zooming it, and I hate watching it on strech plus.

[moo6]

Yea I have to zoom here sometimes too and it drives me nuts. Long ago when we didnt have the lovely wide screens I hated it then, now I love it. I dont want to miss any part of the movie.