Widescreen or Pan&scan????

[element2k5]

Letterbox is the "bomb"

 

[Electric Amish]

I like widescreen, but my wife likes the pan&scan.

amish

 

[arod]

Theres a reason I bought a widescreen TV...

 

[pulse8]

<< Letterbox is the "bomb" >>

Wizzo-screen in the hizz-ouse, boyyyy.

 

[Instagib]

<< Letterbox is the "bomb" >>

 

[element2k5]

whoever voted "what the hell is the difference".... i dont know about you....

 

[Ameesh]

<<

<< Letterbox is the "bomb" >>

Wizzo-screen in the hizz-ouse, boyyyy. >>

 

[BornStar]

<< I like widescreen, but my wife likes the pan&scan.

amish >>


Why on earth would she like pan&scan better? I've run into a couple people that agree with her but I've never gotten a satisfactory reason. Something about not liking the bars on the top and bottom or something like that.

edit: what's the difference between now and not? Oh yeah, fixed it.

 

[Rob9874]

Don't even get me started on widescreen vs. pan & scan. Most women I know prefer pan & scan, because they think widescreen is merely adding black bars to the top and bottom of the screen. They think, "why add black bars, and cut off part of the picture? Why not see all you can see?" I don't think women can understand the idea that movies are filmed in a wider view. I try and try to explain that pan & scan movies cut off the left and right portion of the movie, and they just don't get it. I still get, "OK, but why add those black bars?"

 

[Electric Amish]

<< Don't even get me started on widescreen vs. pan & scan. Most women I know prefer pan & scan, because they think widescreen is merely adding black bars to the top and bottom of the screen. They think, "why add black bars, and cut off part of the picture? Why not see all you can see?" I don't think women can understand the idea that movies are filmed in a wider view. I try and try to explain that pan & scan movies cut off the left and right portion of the movie, and they just don't get it. I still get, "OK, but why add those black bars?" >>



My wife understands, but she just likes having the larger picture on the screen. It's really not that big of a deal, people.

I prefer the P&S on small TV's as well, but since I got my 50", I have changed to widescreen.

amish

 

[ElFenix]

<jeffk>pan nad sacn si teh suk!</jeffk>

 

[yakko]

Both.

 

[MoMeanMugs]

I hate widescreen when I first started collecting DVD's back in 1997, but now I can't stand to see a Pan 'n Scan movie.

 

[vi edit]

I'll take P&S if it's on a TV smaller than 32" or so.

But honestly, I'm not anal enough to notice a huge difference between the two.

 

[pulse8]

<< But honestly, I'm not anal enough to notice a huge difference between the two. >>

I'm usually fine with it until it actually does the digital pan. That's when it gets on my nerves.

 

[BigJohnKC]

For most movies I don't care, but for the visually beautiful ones I like the widescreen better so I can see all the action, all that the director wanted me to see.

 

[Harvey]

Letterbox gives up lines of resolution to display the photo image created by the director. Pan & scan crops the shot to display the part of the frame the TV/film editor thinks is most important for presentation on the small screen. On a "standard" TV screen, you're going to get a compromised picture either way.

Eventually, we'll all have large screen HDTV's, but until then, it just depends on which bothers you less. Of course, even with the coolest of flat screens, if you're a kid trying to "sneak" an extra hour of TV after your folks told you to go to bed, you'll have trouble getting that big display under the covers. :Q

 

[zimmie6576]

I prefer letterbox, even though I only have a 25" TV.

What really makes me laugh is there are FAQs on tech support pages for DVD players (both standalone for TV ones and PC software players) that have an answer to this question:
"Why are there black bars at the top and bottom of my screen? Is there something wrong with my DVD player?"

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

l337 people go for widescreen

nik

 

[Viper GTS]

<< Letterbox gives up lines of resolution to display the photo image created by the director. Pan & scan crops the shot to display the part of the frame the TV/film editor thinks is most important for presentation on the small screen. On a "standard" TV screen, you're going to get a compromised picture either way.

Eventually, we'll all have large screen HDTV's, but until then, it just depends on which bothers you less. Of course, even with the coolest of flat screens, if you're a kid trying to "sneak" an extra hour of TV after your folks told you to go to bed, you'll have trouble getting that big display under the covers. :Q >>



Virtually all DVD's now are animorphically (if that's even a word), which takes care of the resolution problem if you have a TV capable of 16:9 compression.

Viper GTS <-- Loves his Wega

 

[mpitts]

anamorphic widescreen baby! Looks great on my 57" Toshiba Widescreen.

I have been a big widescreen dork for a while. All of my laserdiscs were widescreen.

 

[Aves]

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