I'm mad at past me

[BurnItDwn]

The worst were those 1st gen widescreen dvds, they werent actual real widescreen anamorphic, they were crappy full screen resolution with black bars added wasting bandwidth...

if you played one of those back on a widescreen set, you'd get bars on the sides as well as top and bottom .. terribad!

 

[mvbighead]

They aren't really though, in many countries for example, if I prove I own the movie I can download it as many times as I want as long as I am not distributing or selling.

If the law were MORE clear we wouldnt be having these issues.

Eh, I would think that any sort of upscaling from DVD to HD content wouldn't be legit. If I can buy a DVD for 14.99 but the BluRay runs me 19.99, I'm paying an extra $5 for high def. Not sure how that would even be remotely grey.

 

[shortylickens]

Dvds should never have been fullscreen to begin with. They should have always been widescreen.
Use the zoom function if you bought a DVD player before you got a widescreen TV (which most of us did). Or accept the black bars top & bottom until you upgrade.

 

[Jeff7]

If a movie fully fits a wide screen, is widescreen still not fullscreen?



</philosoraptor shall never die>

 

[Rakehellion]

Not all movies are worthy of buying again in HD, but it would have been better if they were at least widescreen :\

So you're okay with movies in crappy quality, just not slightly crappier quality.

 

[SKORPI0]

4K>Blu-ray>DVD>LaserDisc>VHS. Everyone knows this....

I still have a collection of OTA recordings of '90s TV shows in VHS. DVD and Blu-rays of favorite movies. Some in Beta format too.

 

[Imp]

Hey, you could be trying to get rid of letterboxed VHS's for 1/20th of what you paid for them....

Wrong! We have tupperware bins full of VHS cassettes -- like half recordable, half purchased movies -- somewhere in a store room. No clue how the hell to get rid of those.

 

[BoberFett]

The worst were those 1st gen widescreen dvds, they werent actual real widescreen anamorphic, they were crappy full screen resolution with black bars added wasting bandwidth...

if you played one of those back on a widescreen set, you'd get bars on the sides as well as top and bottom .. terribad!

The early days of DVD were fraught with peril.

 

[shortylickens]

The worst were those 1st gen widescreen dvds, they werent actual real widescreen anamorphic, they were crappy full screen resolution with black bars added wasting bandwidth...

if you played one of those back on a widescreen set, you'd get bars on the sides as well as top and bottom .. terribad!

Thats called Letterbox. And the vast majority of them were clearly labeled Letterbox.

I stand by my original statement: All DVD's should have always been widescreen. You can either zoom or just see everything. Your choice.

 

[Jeff7]

The early days of DVD were fraught with peril.

The Matrix was my first DVD.
I thought it was defective due to the extreme dynamic range, like something had been done wrong on the audio track. Whisper-quiet whispers and dialogue, gunshot-loud gunshots.
I prefer movies to have a more compressed range of sounds. The only way I came across to do decent dynamic range compression was post-ripping. Alas, the functionality doesn't seem to be built into the DVD technology itself.


Is Blu-Ray any better? Such things have not yet reached me beneath my comfy rock.

 

[tential]

lol @ dvds

lol @ 480p

LOLOL

Not all movies are worthy of buying again in HD, but it would have been better if they were at least widescreen :\

Lol @ buying movies

????

 

[Ruptga]

Wrong! We have tupperware bins full of VHS cassettes -- like half recordable, half purchased movies -- somewhere in a store room. No clue how the hell to get rid of those.

Fire would probably do it.

 

[Ichinisan]

I'm ripping all my DVDs to my server, and I'm mad at how many fullscreen movies I bought. Apparently that son of a bitch thought he wouldn't need widescreen... what a dick

I got some DVDs immediately after I got my Pentium 3 computer in February 1999. Made sure to buy only widescreen from the start.

After reading some article on IGN DVD (some time before buying my first DVDs), I knew I had to avoid pan-and-scan at all costs.

 

[x26]

I'm ripping all my DVDs to my server, and I'm mad at how many fullscreen movies I bought. Apparently that son of a bitch thought he wouldn't need widescreen... what a dick

"Your Shits all Retarded and you Talk Like a Faq"

What a Dick Move!!

ETA: I am Enraged about My Past Me!!

 

[x26]

4K>Blu-ray>DVD>LaserDisc>VHS. Everyone knows this....

I still have a collection of OTA recordings of '90s TV shows in VHS. DVD and Blu-rays of favorite movies. Some in Beta format too.

You'll Only Get My Betamax when you Pry it from My Cold Dead Hands!!

 

[Ichinisan]

Lol @ buying movies

????

 

[highland145]

He just pirates them.

 

[Ichinisan]

Some of my earliest DVDs in roughly the order I purchased them:
A Bugs Life
The Prince of Egypt
The Abyss Special Edition
The Matrix

If I recall correctly, Bugs Life was a double-sided disc with both 16:9 and 4:3 formats. The extra content showed that they actually composed all the shots again to make a 4:3 version...so no pan-and-scan was performed. Open up the frame at top and bottom to show more, bring two characters in a shot closer together, etc. That's a pretty awesome advantage of having a movie made entirely in computers. They can make a 4K version if they want to. The DVD package bragged that it was directly from the digital source. They could even do 30 or 60 FPS instead of 24 FPS like a theatrical version.

Dreamworks' "Antz" was also on DVD at the time. I suppose they just used a 35mm source to make the DVD.

 

[Ichinisan]

Lol @ buying movies

????

He just pirates them.

Yeah. He thinks he's special/smart

 

[highland145]

Yeah. He thinks he's special/smart

Short bus?

 

[poofyhairguy]

Dreamworks' "Antz" was also on DVD at the time. I suppose they just used a 35mm source to make the DVD.

They did. It is the only DVD of a 3D animated movie that didn't come from a digital transfer. It was terribad.

 

[tential]

Yeah. He thinks he's special/smart

Short bus?

You do realize you both made these up?
I said I was neither special nor smart.... it was a joke... relax....

Man, talk about uptight around here lol.

Although to be honest, I do absolutely believe I'm more intelligent than both of you. But hey, does that really matter?

 

[highland145]

You do realize you both made these up?
I said I was neither special nor smart.... it was a joke... relax....

Man, talk about uptight around here lol.

You forgot the emote in your posts.


Apologies, Francis.