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Fullscreen or Widescreen DVDs

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: mpitts
I've been buying widescreen movies for ten years. I certainly am not going to change now.
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I'll pay you 10 million dollars to buy and watch only fullscreen movies from now on.
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Done.

You can Paypal me.
 
I have a 50" 4:3 aspect ratio RPTV and I buy only Widescreen versions of movies. I figure it this way, when I watch these movies I see them as they were intended to be viewed in the theater and since I'm not losing much on the top and bottom I don't mind.

Besides, in a few years nearly all broadcasts will be in widescreen and I'll have a widescreen TV so at that point I won't need to go out and replace the hundred or so DVDs I already own.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Albis
"Open Matte" is not the same thing as fullscreen. Most full screen movies are based of a widescreen image with the left and right sides cropped off.

Open Matte is filmed in 4:3 and meant to be that way.
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WRONG.

Most open matte movies are cropped to 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 and released to theaters.

Again, Terminator 3 is a good example.
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Terminator 3 is a bad example. Do you have any "good" movies that were shot in this manner?

/End of T3 sucked donkey balls rant.
 
Wide screen only, I've returned plenty of DVD's just because I didn't realize they were full screen until after I bought them, the only full screen ones I own are because they were free.
 
Widescreen here. I don't even notice the bars anymore. Plus, when I eventually get my widescreen TV, it'll look normal.
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
I don't have any widescreen displays either, but i want to see the entire picture the movie was originally filmed in.
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I concur :beer:
 
And just think, by the time some of you do get a widescreen TV, all those DVDs will be outdated thanks to HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs 😉
 
I buy Widescreen 99% of the time. I have bought some Fullscreen DVDs. They were either super cheap, or the only version of the film I could find.
 
Widescreen. Always.



It means it's letterboxed on my TV now, but I still prefer it to pan and scan, and when I get a true widescreen it'll just make it better.
 
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