Widescreen or Full screen?

[Sir Real]

Widescreen is the only way for us.

 

[jen0610]

We are a widescreen family. Now, if there is an older movie I want and I can only get it in full screen, I will get it, but will always take the widescreen.

 

[ZuZugal]

I want to see the movie as it was meant to be viewed; with all of the details and nothing left out. It's WS for me all the way. FS viewers literally "don't know what they're missing"

 

[pozey]

w i d e s c r e e n ! ! ! !

 

[AllyandJack]

OK...I need to know....what is the appeal of watching a movie that is only 5 inches tall? I bought a big TV. I want to see a picture on all of it. I don't want the movie to be a tiny little strip in the center of my big TV.

Am I doing something wrong? I just don't see how someone could want to watch a tiny movie.

I get the WIDE part of it, but I don't enjoy it being so thin. I don't feel I've gained anything.

 

[kmebee]

Ok - call me an outsider, but I prefer the full-screen. Wide screen makes me want to squint. We have a big tv, but I prefer to use the entire screen. Why should I have to look at two black bars on the tv?

Amen! I'm with ya on this one!

 

[dcgrumpy]

Definitely widescreen

 

[luvdzne]

Dh prefers widescreen, I personally don't care.

 

[mill4023]

Widescreen for several reasons.
First, because I want to see the entire movie. I'm sure that if the director didn't think the images on the left and right side of the shot were important, he/she wouldn't have included them. I don't really understand why someone would want to watch only part of the movie, just so they can have a bigger image. Why not watch the whole thing and just move a little closer to the tv?

Second reason is that in a few years, you won't be able to buy a 4:3 tv. So if those of you who are buying fullscreen dvds want to buy a new tv in a few years, you'll either be watching your dvds with big black bars on the sides, or you'll have to tell your tv to zoom the image even more so you are now chopping off the sides and the top and bottom.

 

[eclectics]

OK...I need to know....what is the appeal of watching a movie that is only 5 inches tall? I bought a big TV. I want to see a picture on all of it. I don't want the movie to be a tiny little strip in the center of my big TV.

Am I doing something wrong? I just don't see how someone could want to watch a tiny movie.

I get the WIDE part of it, but I don't enjoy it being so thin. I don't feel I've gained anything.

Picture yourself in your local movie theater. The screen is rectangular. You can not manipulate that into a basically square TV screen. It's impossible. To view the entire movie without losing any of it, the image has to be "squeezed" from top to bottom to fit it in, hence the bars. Unless you have a widescreen TV there are no ways around the bars, but trust me, you get used to them. Rent or buy both versions of something and compare. You'll be surprised at what you miss!

 

[SideshowBob]

Wide!

 

[TurboKitty]

Definitely widescreen for us.

We'll rent fullscreen, if we've no choice but buy only widescreen.

DS used to hate widescreen until I showed him how to use the zoom feature, but he's been watching DVD's without using it lately to be able to see everything.

 

[AllyandJack]

How do I zoom?? Maybe that's what I need to do to make it bigger? The picture is, literally, 5 inches tall. My TV is 42". It's only 4 years old, so I can't be that outdated!

 

[SueM in MN]

OK...I need to know....what is the appeal of watching a movie that is only 5 inches tall? I bought a big TV. I want to see a picture on all of it. I don't want the movie to be a tiny little strip in the center of my big TV.

Am I doing something wrong? I just don't see how someone could want to watch a tiny movie.

I get the WIDE part of it, but I don't enjoy it being so thin. I don't feel I've gained anything.

Well, if you have a big TV and your picture is only 5 inches tall, you do have a problem.

 

[AllyandJack]

Well, if you have a big TV and your picture is only 5 inches tall, you do have a problem.

It's only like that if I get a widescreen DVD. Everything else is fine on it. I'm doomed.

 

[eclectics]

How do I zoom?? Maybe that's what I need to do to make it bigger? The picture is, literally, 5 inches tall. My TV is 42". It's only 4 years old, so I can't be that outdated!

There is a zoom button on your remote.

 

[mill4023]

How do I zoom?? Maybe that's what I need to do to make it bigger? The picture is, literally, 5 inches tall. My TV is 42". It's only 4 years old, so I can't be that outdated!

What model is your tv?

 

[AllyandJack]

What model is your tv?

I don't know. I think it's a Sony. It's 4 years old, so they probably don't even sell it anymore. It's not a plasma or anything fancy. Maybe I should bust out the instruction manual and see what it says about viewing widescreen DVDs.

 

[DISUNC]

I don't know. I think it's a Sony. It's 4 years old, so they probably don't even sell it anymore. It's not a plasma or anything fancy. Maybe I should bust out the instruction manual and see what it says about viewing widescreen DVDs.

If its a WS tv....then IT SHOULD play the WS dvd's across the whole screen....no black bars!!!!!!!!!

If its a Square Tv then you will get the black bars! However they should be minor when playing the W/S DVD's. Also lots of TV shows are in W/S now too! E/R, The Office...etc!

With Full Screen you either get the sides chopped off...or They use what is called "Pan & Scan"...they move the image back & forth....(sometimes so bad...i got seasick) while sometimes cutting out half the pic. It always drove me crazy!

 

[NeverlandClub23]

I love full screen movies way more than wide screen. I hate the big black spaces and everything seems so small on widescreen even on our big screen!