Which Screen Format of Matrix Reloaded to Get?

[j@cko]

Full Screen or Wide Screen?
Which one is like the most common format for like TV and computer monitor?

 

[Hubes]

i always get widescreen just becuase i have a widescreen tv. But it really all depends on the size tv you have. I find the smaller tv you got its better to go with fullscreen. But if the tv is bigger then 35inches get the widescreen version.

 

[ndee]

Wide-Screen! You might have black bars but you get more "picture".

 

[Hubris]

Widescreen is the only way to fly. Death to pan and scan!

 

[PliotronX]

Unless you have an unusually small screen for the viewing postition, always wydeskreen.

 

[sxr7171]

I can't stand the fact that they even make stupid "full screen" DVD versions of movies. I realize that some people want these for whatever stupid reason (maximise TV screen real estate or whatever). I think it is absolutely pointless to fill your TV screen when you are basically not watching the movie as the director/cinematographer intended.


I don't have a widescreen TV yet, but I would rather have "black bars" than not watch the movie properly. I hate going to Blockbuster and finding that a particular movie is only available in "full screen." Why not just wait for the movie to be shown on TV on FX or TNT or something?

 

[mflacy]

Joe Sixpack buys Full-Screen (Pan & Scam) because he thinks he's seeing more since it take up his entire ecreen. He's really seeing about half the movie with the Matrix Reloaded because it's filmed at a wide aspect ratio. He's seeing Neo fighting arms instead of entire people. He's seeing half of people's faces as they speak. He misses a majority of the huge action sequences.

 

[h8red]

if you get anything else other than widescreen I'll kick your ass

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: mflacy
Joe Sixpack buys Full-Screen (Pan & Scam) because he thinks he's seeing more since it take up his entire ecreen. He's really seeing about half the movie with the Matrix Reloaded because it's filmed at a wide aspect ratio. He's seeing Neo fighting arms instead of entire people. He's seeing half of people's faces as they speak. He misses a majority of the huge action sequences.

I have an idiot friend whose excuse for not getting a DVD player is that he perceives that most DVDs are wide screen and hence will look really small on his 20" TV. So to accomodate idiots like him the studios make these "full screen" (I hate that euphemism) versions in larger quantities than the actual correct format. In fact the correct format versions are rare for some titles, it's almost like hunting for rare vinyl.

 

[dmw16]

Who would ever actually buy a full screen dvd? Even my girlfriend knows better.
-doug

 

[DurocShark]

Black bars top and bottom don't bother me even on small TVs. Once you're into the movie, you don't even notice.

 

[conjur]

Fullscreen = teh suxorz! Pan and Scan must DIE!

 

[her209]

vidcam

 

[EngenZerO]

Originally posted by: dmw16
Who would ever actually buy a full screen dvd? Even my girlfriend knows better.
-doug

what he said

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Hubris
Widescreen is the only way to fly. Death to pan and scan!

 

[ohtwell]

Well like I only buy movies in widescreen. That is unless they like don't have a version of the movie in widescreen. I've like never had that happen though. So like all my movies are in widescreen.

Like widescreen is best!


*Note: "like" is used only in this post as a joke and a tiny mocking of the original poster.



: ) Amanda

 

[EyeMWing]

Let me give you a minor indication.

In the A/V lab at school, filming in anything other than widescreen constitutes an ass wallop by the instructor and two letter grades knocked off the project. We didn't buy wideangle lenses for nothin'

 

[MercenaryForHire]

There are no words in the spoken tongues of Earth to describe my hatred for Pan-&-Scan. We'd have to dig right into the Necronomiconical sh!t.

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Let me give you a minor indication.

In the A/V lab at school, filming in anything other than widescreen constitutes an ass wallop by the instructor and two letter grades knocked off the project. We didn't buy wideangle lenses for nothin'

Your instructor rules. :heart:

- M4H

 

[Lonyo]

There are full screen versions of films?

UK stuff seems 90% 1.85:1 or 16:9 aspect.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Get widescreen, if for some reason you want to watch it in fullscreen ... just zoom in with teh DVD player ...

 

[Wuffsunie]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
There are full screen versions of films?

UK stuff seems 90% 1.85:1 or 16:9 aspect.

Lucky you. Also getting a lot of current TV series way before we do, too.

Guess ppl over there really understand what the DVD is for!

-- Jack

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parke

 

[DanTMWTMP]

widescreen for sure.....what if you get one in the future! u just never know man....

 

[ElMono]

Fullscreen (Pan & Scam) is the devil. Plain and simple.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
There are full screen versions of films? UK stuff seems 90% 1.85:1 or 16:9 aspect.

Here in the states to please morons that will whine and bitch and moan and maybe even threaten to file a lawsuit because portions of their TV screen are being wasted by wasteful movie studios, they had to resort to making a "full screen" (I hate those words) so that people wouldn't complain and to help increase the penetration of the DVD format in homes.