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I hate widescreen... if movies were meant to be fullscreen, they'd be shown that way in the theaters. IMO, fullscreen in an insult to all the hardwork some people put into making movies.

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[This message has been edited by DSettahr (edited December 18, 2003).]

The should chop off 1 / 3 of his face.

*checks his DVDs*
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[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited December 18, 2003).]

errr..Dsett, I think your talking about fullscreen.

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YES YES YES!!! They're all wide screen!!!

whatever.

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call me anal retentive.. but I went and bought the Matrix Reloaded at best buy and came home unwrapped and JUST before i was about to remove the LAST security sticker (of three) i saw teh full screen at the top and immediatly called best buy. They said since i unwrapped the copyright of it was infringed and they couldnt take it back but i spoke with the manager *****ed for about 10 minutes and they said come in we will exchange for widescreen. After another half hour drive to and fro Best Buy I was in heaven with some pop corn and the matrix reloaded in 5.1 glory, but damn that was a close call. Last Christmas my mom bought me AOTC in full screen but fortunatly I saw it before i opened it and exchanged it. Sadly being the dork that i am i feel the same way about fullscreen as the kid in the article it takes away the beauty and presentation of the film and is just unwatchable for me. It is wierd I must say considering i'm generally not a nitpicky person but o well...

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It seems my family always gets me full screen. I appreciate it and all, but it would save me a trip to Best Buy if they just got it right.

Yeah, fullscreen sucks. Happened to me once, but I opened it all the way up before noticing. Thank God for Wal-Mart though, exchanged it saying it was defective, got an unopened copy, then exchanged it for the widescreen at another store. Hehe, suckers.

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I've always been a fan of widescreen but when they realeased Star Wars on VHS in widescreen I was all over it. All over it 6 weeks late that is.
Six weeks after the release of it, it was sold out. I called everywhere in Eastern Ontario. My mom called everywhere in Southern Ontario. The best I could find was a copy that was french dubbed.

Off to Ebay. $110 later (including shipping) I was the new owner of widescreen Star Wars.
I was worried too, as the package was being shipped, that it would be used, worn, the special edition card inside gone...
I got it in my hands shortly after... still in the wrapping! Never opened!!! Oh man. It was awesome.

What was all the exitement about? IG-88 hadn't been seen since it was shwon in theatres. They pan and scanned out IG-88.

The film business doesn't make film n that format just to piss people off and make them pan and scan the thing just to release it to the public on DVD. There are things there we need to see. I don't like fullscreen. It actually gets on my nerves when Jenn comes home with a fullscreen movie (I think she does it on purpose now) so that's why I lock her in the closet for days on end and then yell at her when she misses work and hasn't made me dinner.

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Huh? As in the newspaper?

I took it as it makes you laugh so hard that you start crying. Which I've done.

I dunno, I hear plenty of people that prefer fullscreen... they just hate the black bars and everything being smaller

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My mom likes fullscreen. I don't know what's wrong with her...

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To sulk and be morose about a movie being in fullscreen when it was a GIFT shows just how selfish he is.

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I can understand why pepole like fullscreen, almost everyone in my family perfers fullscreen. (except my Dad, otherwise we'd never buy widescreen.) and I belive why is because the black bars bother pepole, not so much that they're smaller. (for the most part) and I just say, "that's why they make widescreen TVs!"
(oh, and I adore widescreen. fortunatly, my relatives are used to my dad and I's 'wierdness')

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Why do they even make full screen DVDs? If you love full screen you shouldn't be able to own a DVD.

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Why don't they just bung both versions on to the DVD?

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Yeah, but you know what? This one, this one right here, this was my dream, my wish, and it didn't come true. So I'm takin' it back. I'm takin' 'em all back.

uuuh, what is so frikin bad about fullscreen? i always hated widescreen.

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The only reason I like widescreen is because you see what the movie-makers intended for you to see. It's really just the "proper" version of the movie Other than that, bigger is better...


All my DVDs are widescreen

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I have AotC fullscreen and it's horrible.
Especially the very last shot. It's hideously distorted.

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I, personally, cannot stand wide-screen. Watching a movie in full-screen drives me insane because the proportions are too far off for everything to look right. Cars in movies look a lot taller and thinner in full-screen than they do in wide-screen. Same with other things, such as people, etc... The only thing that looks good in full-screen are TV shows.

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My friend and I rented Bad Boys II last night, and he's like "wait...how do you get rid of the bars?" This is where I want to bonk my head...I try to explain that we're actually seeing more, but he and my mom and lots of other people just want to get rid of 'the bars' like they think the movie got cut from the top and bottom...

And I love widescreen. I can deal with fullscreen, but widescreen is like the theatre experience, it's cooler, you see more.

There are 2 groups:

1. We want to see everything, experience everything, regardless of screen size, it'll be the same every time we watch it as long as we see it all.

2. We want the whole freakin screen to be filled up, the TV's square for a reason, and I'm not staring at 2 black bars for 2 hours, I want it to be bigger, to have a bigger experience!

The majority of us are in group 1.

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I'm going to go out and do stuff, like besides work. Call up ben, hang out. Maybe see the last samurai, go skydiving, whatever.
Get back into the gym...
I want to do stuff that prevents me from playin video games so I can only play them a few hours a day, basically.
(Formally Veger, who died when he lost his e-mail adress, and his password. Veeger still looks for his old pass...)

What's weird is that my Buffy DVDs have black bars, so I assume that they're pan&scanned for broadcast, too. Are they filming more just for DVD viewers or what?



Sadly, I think you're mistaken. The current "loud wars" (can't find a link at the moment) are testament to that. Basically what's happening is that the upper and lower registers of CDs are being cut off because they're trying to make the entire thing "louder" by making it all sound the same. People want their music "loud" but not necessarily of a high quality or the way the musician intended it. It's the same with movies.

Almost every DVD I've bought has been widescreen, even though it doesn't say anything on the box.

I have a rather big 4:3 TV, but the 'letter box' around widescreen movies don't bother me, as most of the other TV programs are shown in 4:3.

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I prefer widescreen. After a while you don't even notice the bars are there. That's what you need to do to anyone who hates widescreen. Just tie them up and force them to watch one or two widescreen movies until they don't see the bars anymore. Oh yeah.

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All DVD's should contain widescreen AND fullscreen capabilities until widescreen becomes the standard (which it inevitably will).

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