widescreen or regular..what do you perfer?

[jasond]

When you buy dvds, do you perfer regular screen or widescreen?

[zzyzzx]

regular

[91BRAVO]

W I D E

Preferably A N A M O R P H I C

I prefer to see the whole scene no just what is surrounding the actor whom is speaking at the time

[d4n13l]

lol!
Widescreen any day!
Widescreen is better because it is a more natural aspect ratio for us to watch. It is more or less the same aspect ratio that we see the world through. 4:3 is only so because they didnt have the technology to make 16:9 displays back in the day.

[zzyzzx]

I have a 19" TV so widescreen stuff looks tiny.


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[Greg12]

FULL SCREEN.

ANAMORPHIC CAN SUX A MONKEY'S NIPPLE.

I have seen widescreen movies so small, I had to return it and actually say the picture was to small to see.

[pinoy2201]

Widescreen baby...........simply the best

[thefuzion]

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FULL SCREEN.

ANAMORPHIC CAN SUX A MONKEY'S NIPPLE.

I have seen widescreen movies so small, I had to return it and actually say the picture was to small to see.


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Bwwahahahahahahahhas.. thats the lamest thing i have ever heard.. im sorry..

W I D E S C R E E N !
Allways!.... (either 1.85:1 or 2.35:1)
I like to see the movie the way the director intended it to be...
They didnt chop up Mona Lisa to make it fit on the wall did they?.,., and i bet they never would...


/El Fuzione

[Greg12]

I can tolerate 1:85:1 but 2:35:1 is not worth watching.

unless you have a DVD computer and u can adjust the aspect ratio.

[d4n13l]

Best thing is to get a Widescreen TV... A BIG Widescreen TV, then you will never want to watch another 4:3 TV for as long as you live.

[thefuzion]

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Best thing is to get a Widescreen TV... A BIG Widescreen TV, then you will never want to watch another 4:3 TV for as long as you live.
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True!... wide is better... 4:3 is an invention of evil..

[Douglesh]

not an invention of the evil, just getting outdated because DVD's are becoming more widespread. Cropping heaps of the movie to fit it on a screen just sux, which is why widescreen is better, i even prefer watching widescreen movies on my 4:3 panasonic TV, because i can see the whole scene

[ember]

This is a question of transitional problems. Once widescreen TVs are the norm everyone will look back at 4:3 TVs and realize how artificial 4:3 is - it's as if someone has put black drapes in front of you to cut out your natural cone of vision.

[ashtones]

If you have a widescreen set is anamorphic still cropped on the top and the bottom?

[House de Kris]

Hmmmm, I thought widescreen WAS regular. And pan&scan was then a hack job done to the original. At any rate, yes I prefer the original unmodified full view of widescreen. I do have to admit that I have never viewed a widescreen movie on a 19" or smaller television. If I did, I might change my opinion.

[AntnyMD]

The 4:3 aspect ratio was a standard adopted by Hollywood early on in films, the 1920s I believe. Television, not having any other example to follow, adopted the 4:3 aspect ratio because the inventors of television were more focused on the technology to "make pictures fly through the air" rather than preserving anyone's theatrical intentions.

In response to the overwhelming popularity of television in the late 1940s, Hollywood unofficially adopted a wider aspect ratio for films, known by various terms as CinemaScope, VistaVision and others. Television, being the dominant medium, did not adopt this new and unofficial aspect ratio until just recently. In the 1950s, television technologists were focused on bringing living color to homes around the world.

There have only been a handful of significant changes in NTSC: the invention of television in the first place; color television; cable television; stereo audio; digital television.

There are even wider aspect ratio movies still being made, notably those in the Omnimax (not the more well-know IMAX) format, that when shown fill a viewers entire field of vision including peripheral vision. Theaters to show these films are expensive and few and far between. If you've ever seen one of these films, you'll never forget the experience.

There are only two I know of (I'm sure there are more). One is in Detroit ... the other is in Chicago.

[ember]

Most film lovers accept that movie makers adopted widescreen to counteract the television revolution, in order to attract people back to the cinema. It makes you wonder if they may try another trick in widening (or making 3d) future cinema releases, thereby making 16:9 TVs redundant. If they can pull the trick once, why not again?

[nfl2k2]

I like full screen. I hate the black bars at the top and bottom of the tv.

[Sefy]

Wide Screen!! any day, any time!!
You haven't trouly watched Superman - The Movie untill you saw it on a Wide Screen!!

back when I started with VCD's, I didn't like Wide Screen because all I could think of was those annoying black bars, but then I concentrated on how much I was missing from the sides of the movie, and ever since then, never went back when I could!

My biggest shock lately was that the DVD store brought the Full Screen version of the Grinch, man what a botcher!!

[pacmania_2001]

Widescreen is much better. Once you get watching the movie you soon dont notice the black bars on the top and bottom if you are watching it on a 4:3 TV.

I prefer widescreen because as other posters have said you get to see the whole scene and not some hacked up version where in some scenes it is blatently obvious such as in credits and movies with writing on screen.

[Greg12]

wide screen is good in the movie theators and if i had a widescreen TV it would be kool.

I just cannot fathom why people look at that tiny two inch picture and have all that black screen.

[vhelp]

I have to jump in here. . .

The one that works for me is this one.

The one that the Star Trek Enterprise is shown in.

THATs THE PERFECT W I D E S C R E E N VIEW

Anthing else wider, and you can stick you middle finger too!!
I hate those tiny wide screen view, ie, first "Austin Power" dvd
"Contact" to name a few. But the mid-size widescreen is the
best overall for movie viewing!! Otherwise, FULLSCREEN!!

And, anyone who goes through the process to trying to actually
create these out of FULLSCREEN, is got to be missing some screws! he, he...

[salvius]

I have a pidly 21' TV but I prefer widescreen any day of the week. Sorry, I want to see the flick how it actually looked in the theater, not how some lame-o edited it.

By the way, for all people who do not like black bars, do turn the light off when watching widescreen. It makes quite a difference.

[Sefy]

And instead of getting a 40" TV, go get a second hand Projector, do remember that even a DVD is only 720x480/576 resolution, so you can basicly get a simple Projector of upto 800x600 and that would be wonderful for your DVD and VCD/SVCD!

[vhelp]

Sefy,

(my first question to ya)

I was just thinking about the projector thing - ok, while I was driving back home
from work this evening. I said, "Woner what it would look like?" "...hmmm"

I watch my satalete on my 13" TV and am quite satisfied - really!! But, I remember
walking into CompUSA and seeing a slim, half then shoe box size box, movie
projector playing Toy Story on a wall, and must say, that the quality for such a
gizmo wasn't bad!! It was pretty good!

But, I'm also curious about how a Widescreen would look on one of these too.

Any comments?

Just curious, how much does one cost (simple and inexpensive) that is?

[Sefy]

vhelp, well, as i've seen one myself a few times, it's quality is pretty impressive, and it plays the movie as is, it's a projector, not limited by pixels or a monitor size

so can go from 30" to 300", and their price in nearly all cases are less then half of the 30" or 40" TV you might want to buy.

Not to mention they don't take that much space either
Now do remember you don't need to buy one of those fancy ones which can do 1024x768 cause a DVD is just 720x480/576!

[vhelp]

Sefy,

Tanx!

[Joel0607]

It's funny that we think 19" TVs are small. In my kitchen I've got a 5" B&W tv. Now THAT I wouldn't watch widescreen movies on.

But, when people start getting their huge-a** wall TV's, and when stations switch over to HDTV in a few years...

... then we'll ALL get used to 16:9. (But we will hate watching old 4:3 shows with ads on the left and right!!)

But those of you who dont like widescreen, have fun watching those two-shots where you can see HALF of Capt. Kirk on the left and HALF of Spock on the right, with tons of empty space in the middle.

[Joel0607]

Sefy and Vhelp... You are amazing.

I was just thinking how watching DVD's on a TV is great for me, but it just isnt practical when I bring friends over to crowd around a little television.

Sounds like I'll tear down a poster or two, set up a projector and watch my movies on the wall!

[mysticgohan17]

I like capturing widescreen movies like Indiana Jomnes and Star Trek. I like widescreen bnettere because I can blur out the cable TV logos.