POLL: DVD format ... widescreen or fullscreen?

[jennyl772003]

WIDESCREEN!

We have an HD TV now, but we have always bought widescreen movies. After watching them for, oh, 5 minutes, you don't even notice the bars anymore.

If we can't find the movie in widescreen, we don't buy it.

 

[tae1218]

Only widescreen for us.

 

[Servants of Evan]

I'll only buy widescreen editions. We never had a problem watching widescreen versions on a 13" tv.

 

[hucifer]

Widescreen!

I hate to know that I'm missing something that the director intended me to see.

 

[cardaway]

Nope.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...and+Scan&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title


Well, to be fair, that "can" happen, but usually doesn't. Usually parts of the film are cut from BOTH sides of the film's "width".

Depends on just how WIDE the movie was to begin with.

The Lion King for example is 1.66.1. Not much to cut off to be changed to fullscreen.

A 1.85.1 ratio movie doesn't have to lose much, usually less panning to capture scenes in those.

A 2.35.1 movie is basically twice the width of fullscreen. No way they can just chop off the sides, they pan back and forth based on the scene.

Beyond that the links provided ealier show it better than anybody could describe it. Look at the pictures and see what you're missing.

BTW: Many older movies were filmed in 1.33.1 (fullscreen) like Snow White and Gone With the Wind.

 

[sakura-panda]

I like widescreen too. I always feel like half the picture has been chopped off when I watch a modified "full-screen" version.

--Katie

 

[hlbtimes2]

Widescreen with out question. But, it helps that both our main tv's are widescreen.

 

[KarenAylwood]

My TV is only a 20'' screen and I still prefer widescreen. I HATE foolscreen.

I really noticed a difference watching Lady and the Tramp- it was their first cinemascope movie and so they had to film it in both widescreen and fullscreen to have it play in all theaters at the time (widescreen wasn't the standard yet). There was a huge difference when you watched the "Making of" featurette and they showed the foolscreen version. Blech!

 

[U2_rocks]

I guess I ought to just get used to widescreen huh! We have a mixture of widescreen and fullscreen, and some give us the choice i.e. both versions are on the DVD (thinking of some of our Disney DVDs).

I just find those black bars very distracting, and make the action on screen seem much smaller, even though it's more realistic in terms of the original movie. I just have never felt cheated by any of our fullscreen movies - I guess because I don't know what it *should* look like, or I don't remember.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Widescreen!

Do you guys honestly still even 'see' the black strips after 5 minutes into the movie?

I just watched "Memoirs of a Geshia" and they only had the fullscreen. Now, this movie is known for its wonderful beauty and cinematography. I feel like I missed half of that.

 

[Potus]

Although I'm seriously Pro-Widescreen (and Anti-Fullscreen) I do have a theory on why some people just can't handle the "black bars".

I think it all depends on how a person is "wired". Just like some people are more "visual" or "linear", right-handed or left-handed, etc. I think there are those who just can't block out the "black bars" if their life depended on it.

This is not a good thing or a bad thing. It just is.

For me, not only do the bars disappear, I don't even notice anything else in the room or theatre. Guess I just get too absorbed.

Just a few thoughts for what it's worth.

 

[eclectics]

Widescreen ONLY please!!!!!!!!!! I just can't understand the folks that don't mind missing a good third of the picture, but to each his own!

 

[Quasi123]

I prefer the widescreen too.