Why do they still make DVDs in FULLSCREEN? A rant.
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Ledbetterus wrote:Seriously.. wtf! Who buys fullscreen stuff? Why make this crap? Call me picky, but i just can't watch a DVD in fullscreen if it's meant to be in widescreen.
"This film is different from the original, it has been formatted to fit your TV screen."
The shit even comes with a stupid disclaimer!
I bring this up because in the haze of holiday shopping I decided to get myself 'The Simpson Movie' today at Circuit City. Firstly, their "new" releases are in a cube-shaped shelf system in the middle of a high-traffic area. (In my store they're between the video games and the Verizon shop, which is about 7' of space with a 4' cube of movies in the middle.
So basically I found myself plowing through 10 people to get to the side with the movie on it.. I had to reach around a mother who was carrying her child and talking on a cell phone to grab the movie. I even thought as I grabbed it "I wonder if there are two versions, full/widescreen, NAA they don't make fullscreen anymore." Plus there was only one row of movies (that I saw), so I figured all were the same.
I got home, wrapped some crap, got a beer, popped in the movie and BOOM, hello disclaimer! So basically I won't watch it. $15 well spent I must say.
I guess it's overall my fault for being impatient, but hell, why are they still producing DVDs in fullscreen at all? I have a widescreen TV now, but even when I didn't I was still buying the widescreen versions.
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brainofPJ wrote:i don't appreciate an 8 inch black bar on the top and bottom.
You better appreciate an editted version of the film you're watching? And so far as I know, it used to be that a full screen version would appear on a widescreen tv with the bars on the left and right instead. Now, at best you're not only seeing an editted version but one that's heavily distorted to fit the screen. Perhaps this has changed but this is how it used to be at least.
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brainofPJ wrote:i don't appreciate an 8 inch black bar on the top and bottom.
Same here, sometimes I feel like the black bar takes me more space than the picture.......I have some of the both but I much prefer the full screenAlpine Valley 2000
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kenshunt wrote:Why don't you get HD movies instead of widescreen ?
Because I don't want to shell out $400 on a HD DVD player just yet.Abraham Lincoln once said, "If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North."0 -
Ledbetterus wrote:Because I don't want to shell out $400 on a HD DVD player just yet.0
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Jeanie wrote:I hate wide screen.
i hate wide screen too!! and i do have a wide screen TV, its so annoying how the picture looks like its stretched.0 -
answers are fatal wrote:i hate wide screen too!! and i do have a wide screen TV, its so annoying how the picture looks like its stretched.0
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Some of us don't have 40 ton widescreen TVs.'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'
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harmless_little_f*** wrote:Some of us don't have 40 ton widescreen TVs.
Oh wait, yes it does. 46 lbs.0 -
'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'
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pjoasisrule wrote:Same here, sometimes I feel like the black bar takes me more space than the picture.......I have some of the both but I much prefer the full screen
You may "feel" the bars take away from the picture but by watching stuff that has been re-formatted for fullscreen viewing, you are in essence missing 20% of your movie/tv show.answers are fatal wrote:i hate wide screen too!! and i do have a wide screen TV, its so annoying how the picture looks like its stretched.
If it looks stretched that's because it's formatted for fullscreen and you have your TV set on widescreen. Look for a "format" button or something like that on the remote and mess with it until the picture looks good.
Check out this site and tell me you still prefer full screen.. trust me, you don't even notice the letterboxes (the black bars) after 5 minutes.
http://www.widescreen.org/examples/starwars/index.shtml
I found this article too, I'm sure there are better but this guy gets mean! lol
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answers are fatal wrote:i hate wide screen too!! and i do have a wide screen TV, its so annoying how the picture looks like its stretched.
It's like watching tennis!! You have to keep turning your head back and forward to see everything!NOPE!!!
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answers are fatal wrote:i hate wide screen too!! and i do have a wide screen TV, its so annoying how the picture looks like its stretched.
Definetly the wrong format or display settings, because widescreen is most def. not stretched.
With a widescreen TV, you can stretch the 4:3 to fill up the entire screen...this is "stretched". The widescreen 16:9 won't and shouldn't be stretched unless you tell the TV to do it.0 -
Ledbetterus wrote:Seriously.. wtf! Who buys fullscreen stuff? Why make this crap? Call me picky, but i just can't watch a DVD in fullscreen if it's meant to be in widescreen.
"This film is different from the original, it has been formatted to fit your TV screen."
The shit even comes with a stupid disclaimer!
I bring this up because in the haze of holiday shopping I decided to get myself 'The Simpson Movie' today at Circuit City. Firstly, their "new" releases are in a cube-shaped shelf system in the middle of a high-traffic area. (In my store they're between the video games and the Verizon shop, which is about 7' of space with a 4' cube of movies in the middle.
So basically I found myself plowing through 10 people to get to the side with the movie on it.. I had to reach around a mother who was carrying her child and talking on a cell phone to grab the movie. I even thought as I grabbed it "I wonder if there are two versions, full/widescreen, NAA they don't make fullscreen anymore." Plus there was only one row of movies (that I saw), so I figured all were the same.
I got home, wrapped some crap, got a beer, popped in the movie and BOOM, hello disclaimer! So basically I won't watch it. $15 well spent I must say.
I guess it's overall my fault for being impatient, but hell, why are they still producing DVDs in fullscreen at all? I have a widescreen TV now, but even when I didn't I was still buying the widescreen versions.
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Ledbetterus wrote:Seriously.. wtf! Who buys fullscreen stuff? Why make this crap? Call me picky, but i just can't watch a DVD in fullscreen if it's meant to be in widescreen.
"This film is different from the original, it has been formatted to fit your TV screen."
The shit even comes with a stupid disclaimer!
You know widescreen comes with a disclaimer, too ("the black bars at the top and bottom are normal...")
Even before I bought a 37" widescreen tv, I preferred widescreen dvds (and vhs for that matter). I love the way dvds "enhanced for widescreen tvs" look on the new tv. The only thing that bugs me (just a little) is when the movie has a greater than 1.85:1 ratio on a standard def dvd, it still has back bars. They aren't bad, but I wish they'd just adjust it like they do the HD and Blu rays.
The real question is, how much was the Simpsons movie at Circuit City this week? I'm gonna get it Friday, but I didn't get a Sunday paper to compare prices.I love my female wife...
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SoonForgotten2 wrote:You better appreciate an editted version of the film you're watching? And so far as I know, it used to be that a full screen version would appear on a widescreen tv with the bars on the left and right instead. Now, at best you're not only seeing an editted version but one that's heavily distorted to fit the screen. Perhaps this has changed but this is how it used to be at least.
Sorry, but formatted full-screen makes me cringe.
i think it has changed because when i pop in a fullscreen dvd i don't have the bars to the left and right. and it's not on zoom. it looks just like the programs i watch on tv.
i don't know a lot about dvds, but some of the widescreen movies i have are different than the other widescreen movies...it drives me nuts. so much that i hit the Picture Size button to zoom in once....then it looks like the others.
i don't know what the feck is going on.
btw, i just appreciate the fact that im able to watch movies in my own home. i have just recently come around to accepting widescreen.
ill watch whatever.
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I feel your pain.. I just ordered Man Vs. Wild season 1 and its non-anomorphic.. Its widescreen, but meant for full-screen TVs, so now I have to watch it all stretched out, while loosing some resolution..0
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if you like widescreen and the black bars dont bother you, watch wide screen.
if they do bother you, buy full screen..
either way, read the box before you buy it, and you surely wont waste everyones time with your rants.
having said that...
I am in the widescreen camp...
and one word can perfectly sum up why pan and scan/fullscreen is awful.. and that word is... Multiplicity. Watch it folks, and you'll understand the major advantage of widescreen.0
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