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Widescreen vs. Full frame which do you prefer?

J

Joyride

Golden Member
Ever since I got my DVD player I will never go back to full frame

Long live widescreen

EDIT: Changed anamorphic to Full Frame (hope thats right now)
 
I believe he means widescreen vs standard, or something to that effect.

Anamorphic DVD is widescreen with 33% more vertical resolution - in otherwords they're essentially one & the same.

Viper GTS
 
I would prefer a 4:3 ratio. I don't think of it as loss of horizontal film. I think of it as, "why don't you cr@p film makers just give us even more vertical view?"
 
Original aspect ratio as intended by the director. There are fullscreen movies out that that have been cropped to widescreen to suit the idiots screaming "We want widescreen only!" Cropping and pan/scan is bad.
 


<< Original aspect ratio as intended by the director. There are fullscreen movies out that that have been cropped to widescreen to suit the idiots screaming "We want widescreen only!" Cropping and pan/scan is bad. >>



Very well said rewap 😀

edit:Stanley Kubrick is a good example.
 
My mom used to think widescreen cut peoples heads off in the movies

Or atleast cut off the top and bottom portions of the movie.

 
Pan&Scan. I will never watch Widescreen movies on my 56" Panasonic 16:9 HDTV set.
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<< Pan&Scan. I will never watch Widescreen movies on my 56" Panasonic 16:9 HDTV set. >>



yea man... don't you just LOVE those grey/black bars on the side? I can't get enough of them.
 
Movies that are filmed in widescreen should be shown in widescreen. I don't mind pan and scan as much if it's used for a light comedy like, oh say, jay and silent bob, but for the most part it bugs me. You miss a full 1/3 of the movie! You might think "oh, it's just the sides, it doesn't matter" but it does. Directors convey a lot of information using the frame, and pan and scan just totally slaughters that. Of course, using widescreen for the sake of widescreen is even worse, there's really no reason to have the black bars on shows like ER, it just adds some fake element of drama (IE, people associate widescreen with drama, they see the bars and belive that what they are seeing is somehow more dramatic).
 


<< there's really no reason to have the black bars on shows like ER >>


I thought the ER issues w/ black bars were filmed in widescreen, thus like the director wanted + ER is a drama 😕
 
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