POLL: DVD format ... widescreen or fullscreen?

[U2_rocks]

I know widescreen preserves the original frames, and some outer edge stuff gets cut off of fullscreen ... but my TV is just not big enough to enjoy watching a skinny rectangular strip of a movie! I like my movie to fill the whole screen. ....... though I sometimes wonder if I'm missing some critical parts of a scene that way.

What about you guys?

 

[mudpuppy]

Fullscreen here!!

I get distracted and feel I have to squint with the black areas on the top and bottom of the screen!! I suppose if I had a big screen TV, I might feel different but for now the fullscreen is more to my liking

 

[slo]

Widescreen for me

 

[disneynutt1225]

Widescreen only for me - once they started making DVD's that way, I never went back.

 

[Barb D]

Widescreen movies for our (relatively small) widescreen TV. We watch regular TV shows widescreen too; makes the actors a little chubbier, but I don't even notice it any more.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

For movies that were filmed widescreen, I like widescreen. But for TV shows, filmed to be full-screen, I like that. There wasn't an option for "I like to see it the way it was intended to be seen."

So, I picked widescreen.

 

[LoraJ]

Widescreen.

I had Grease full screen on VHS and also watched it that way on tv a zillion times. When they re-released it in the theater, there was Bowzer from Sha Na Na. I had totally forgotten about him. Now I have a widescreen copy, and I never ever buy full screen. Doesn't matter how small the screen.

 

[cardaway]

Foolscreen is for...

http://www.widescreen.org/index.shtml

 

[monarchsfan16]

Full screen. I HATE the black boxes. My stepdad buys all DVD's widescreen. I buy them all full screen. We've got our own little battle going. But full screen is better

 

[Skywalker]

Definitely Widescreen.

Fullscreen is just madness I tell you, madness!

 

[becka]

It has to be widescreen around here.

 

[ShuisFan584]

Definitely fullscreen! Why would I want to watch half of a movie and half black bars?! I get annoyed sometimes when all they have is widescreen at the stores. I would much rather watch anything fullscreen.

 

[scoutsmom99]

Widescreen. I can't stand watching a flick in full screen...you miss so much of the picture with full screen

 

[Slacking]

I don't own any Widescreen televisions, or any big tvs at that, but I must buy my DVD's in widescreen.

 

[RoyalCanadian]

Widescreen here -- why miss up to about 40% of the movie on full-screen?

 

[olena]

If available, it's gotta be widescreen. If it's not available on the movie DVD, we won't buy the DVD.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I like to see the movie as it is originally shot. Especially the older movies. They were not filmed wtih the aftermarket in mind--so you watch and faces are cut off. It is annoying.

I love to partake all the elements as the director envisioned. The improper framing bugs me.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Widescreen all the way. You miss soooo much detail with fullscreen and don't even get me started on pan-and-scan.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

pan and scan????

 

[sajetto]

I'm a full screen person