[POLL] Which do you prefer Widescreen or Full Screen?

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
a square provides more image space than a rectangle.

kinda depends on which side of the rectangle your gonna constrain doesnt it?
and neither ratio is a square ... better stick to rocket science genius.

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: LanceM
Widescreen. I will only buy full screen if it's an old TV show.

Most good TV shows that come out on DVD these days are released in 16:9!

Monk, Lost, and Firefly look great in widescreen.

I can see the indignation from Joe 6-pack when TVs are no longer sold in 4:3.

"But all my DVDs are full screen!"

IMHO, they shouldn't be able to call the full screen. Cropped view DVDs should be the name unless they're James Cameron movies.

that's why he specified old TV shows

I never said he was wrong. Just adding in.

 

[aidanjm]

Fullscreen (i.e., 4:3 Pan & Scan) because I haven't bought a widescreen monitor yet. Watching in widescreen on a standard lcd monitor means you lose too much screen real estate. And most movies aren't great classics anyway, so I really don't care if the vision of the director is compromised by me not seeing the entire width of the movie.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Widescreen. No particular reason.

 

[EngenZerO]

oar ftw!!!

 

[JujuFish]

Widescreen.

 

[Special K]

I was watching a movie on a Dell 2005fpw (16:10 AR), and turned on Pan&Scan to make the movie take up the entire screen. Is it correct that the sides of the movie are being cropped, but not by nearly as much as if I were to use pan and scan on a 4:3 monitor?

 

[BW86]

widescreen

 

[bonkers325]

full screen for normal usage, wide screen for movies/tv shows that support wide screen

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: cherrytwist

Originally posted by: shamrock1313
Full Screen FTL.

Fixed.

:thumbsup:

 

[zanieladie]

Widescreen. I like being able to see more of what the director wants us to see. Plus it provides more space at the bottom of my screen on the closed captioning.

 

[Blayze]

Originally posted by: Koing
OAR

Koing

:thumbsup:

Same here. If it was filmed in fullscreen fine, widescreen thats great. As long as I get the whole image, and not a cropped version so it will "fill my screen".

 

[mrSHEiK124]

OAR

 

[rbV5]

Depends on the display I'm using to watch. With my 16:9 displays, I prefer widescreen media, with my 4:3 and 5:4 displays, I prefer Fullscreen media. My overall preference is widescreen of course.

 

[Goosemaster]

15 people are panzies:laugh:

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: remagavon
Definitely widescreen for me.