Poll: Widescreen or Fullscreen (Pan&Scan)

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
You guys are seriously over complicating the purpose of anamorphic video.

Unlike other video formats (divx, for example) which allows for user specified image dimensions, DVD is a fixed 4:3 ratio with pixel dimensions of 720x480 (regular TV pixels aren't square).

"Anamorphic" means that a 16:9 frame (or other "wide screen" ratio) is stretched vertically (not horizontally as previously stated) to 16:12 (thus becoming 4:3). This makes use of the entire 4:3 video space on a DVD, giving 33% greater vertical resolution than encoding it with black bars. To display it properly, something has to squeeze it back to it's original ratio. Most people will use their DVD players to do this, people with TV's capable of anamorphic squeeze (ie my Wega) compress the scan range vertically to use the entire vertical scan range to draw the image rather than wasting scan lines on the black boxes.

That's all it is, putting more 16:9 picture information into the 4:3 shaped box that is DVD.

Viper GTS

I said "squeezed horizontally." You said stretched vertically. What's the diff? They both come out the same way

And I explained it in fewer words, PLUS I provided pics.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: amnesiac
How come in every poll some retards vote for the obviously wrong / stupid choice but don't have the balls to own up and defend themselves?

ALL OF YOU WHO VOTED FULLSCREEN ARE STUPID AND YOU SUCK AND YOU SMELL BAD. I HATE YOU AND HOPE YOUR DVDS ALL BREAK. JACKASSES.

pent up anger much? jesus. step outside

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: kindest

Originally posted by: Ameesh
pan scan is garbage, it should be illegal and all the people who like it should be arrested.

agreed

 

[alocurto]

Originally posted by: Ronstang

Originally posted by: Jehovah
Widescreen!

I always joke with my rounder-eyes friends (i.e. - non-asian): We get the full widecreen view while you round-eyed devils get the short end of the stick, the Pan&Scan view . . ..

From what I've heard you guys have a short stick.

haha

 

[Fatdog]

Originally posted by: austin316

sarcasm. S-video and widescreen only.

Component video and widescreen here.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Widescreen. Death to fullscreen!

:beer:

 

[Kelemvor]

Unless you have a really tiny TV, you are missing so much of a movie if you don't have Widescreen. I always laugh at people who think the top and bottom of the movie gets cut off in widescreen when it's really the other way around.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

I hate black bars.

 

[pennylane]

Widescreen or BAN!

 

[ElFenix]

Widescreen. Death to fullscreen!