Are any of you like me?

[joule]

I am a WIDE-SCREEN-only person. FULL-SCREEN is just :x . I won't buy anything but wide-screen, no matter what the scenario.

WIDE-SCREEN ALL THE WAY!!!

 

[The Dark Elf]

Prefer widescreen here too.

But I hate how some things fake it to look good, really messes things up.

 

[Toffee]

Me too.
What sucks about widescreen broadcast on tv, is that the translation text is placed below the picture on the black area, which looks silly. Whats the point on sending it widescreen then.. :/

 

[h00dlum]

Me too.
What sucks about widescreen broadcast on tv, is that the translation text is placed below the picture on the black area, which looks silly. Whats the point on sending it widescreen then.. :/

I think thats good, sometimes the subtitles can be hard to read when its bright on the screen, and why have text take up room on a already small screen..

 

[Ghost Freeman]

Wide-screen or no-screen.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Me too.
What sucks about widescreen broadcast on tv, is that the translation text is placed below the picture on the black area, which looks silly. Whats the point on sending it widescreen then.. :/

lol exactly hehe

 

[Raziaar]

I don't have a widescreen tv so i don't like it.

 

[Ferrarik1]

ehhhh fullscreen

 

[Incitatus]

pff what a resticted point of view, granted widescreen lends itself to better compositions. But if you only watch widescreen you're missing out on some of the greatest moments in cinematic history.

 

[joule]

But if you only watch widescreen you're missing out on some of the greatest moments in cinematic history.

Care to explain? :rolling:

 

[Ennui]

Widescreen>Fullscreen, but I don't really care too much if it's fullscreen.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Care to explain? :rolling:

The bit where the star's head is off screen while his body is historically still on screen? oO




A lot of widescreen TV's aren't proper widescreen, so when you watch widescreen films, you get big black bars above and bllow still, and the picture is actually thinly placed across the middle. A good widescreen tele is one that is about twice as wide as it is tall, while being about 30 tall

I want a widescreen tv, but I don't have the money at the moment to get the one I really want. Its a big LCD screen...really really big, and its refresh rate and FPS are even good enough to play a lot of games which is surprising. It does however cost about £4000.
I saw it a while back when I was browing the internet, and I just could't stop staring at it. It really was massive and it was only about 2 inches thick, which is pure beauty

 

[Yuri]

The whole concept of widescreen is just goddamn stupid without a widescreen TV or computer... I always hated the idea of not being able to use the bottom and top of my TV when I watched widescreen movies. Now that I have a widescreen TV and laptop, though... :angel:

 

[Javert]

I am a WIDE-SCREEN-only person. FULL-SCREEN is just :x . I won't buy anything but wide-screen, no matter what the scenario.

WIDE-SCREEN ALL THE WAY!!!

Yep, widescreen all the way.
Fullscreen=n00bs.

What they're doing now on the DVD's is going anamorphic. That is, a widescreen DVD will stretch the picture a bit to eliminate the black bars. It's completely unnoticeable unless u have a side-by-side comparison. It satisfies both camps.

 

[PHATXUIQ]

Widescreen rules cause all the subtitles go in dark area and do not block the picture I am watching

 

[MilkMan12]

I dont like it when big black bars of death invade my big screen tv, it just looks horrible, i got used to it, but i hate big black bars of death invading my movie. It seems like its cutting a bunch of stuff off, and for those of us who forked up the big bucks to buy a big screen tv now find its pointless as the movie is shrunk to a normal size tv looking size lol, but on big screen the movie is the movie and thats all you see which is great, but then those black bars of death creep in AHHHHHHHH

 

[pAiNtHeAsS]

prefer widescreen
although, if its not an action type movies, i don't mind

we have a projector projecting on a 100 in. screen, i don't really mind having the black bars. the picture is still big enough.

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

I prefer widescreen too. Fullscreen is kind of "ugly".

 

[Raziaar]

How the heck do you guys use those widescreen TVs to watch normal TV anyways? Would you have a little box on your screen? lol.

 

[Toffee]

How the heck do you guys use those widescreen TVs to watch normal TV anyways? Would you have a little box on your screen? lol.

With widescreen, youd see two black bars both sides of the picture.
I hated widescreen when I had normal tv, but now its the opposite, lol.

 

[Tr0n]

Rich bastards!

I'm still stuck with some crappy late 80's tv.

 

[qckbeam]

Rich bastards!

I'm still stuck with some crappy late 80's tv.

The TV in my room is twenty years old... ;(

 

[craig]

What they're doing now on the DVD's is going anamorphic. That is, a widescreen DVD will stretch the picture a bit to eliminate the black bars. It's completely unnoticeable unless u have a side-by-side comparison. It satisfies both camps.

You're definition of anamorphic is incorrect.

Widescreen movies are released in 2 main formats, which are 1.80:1 (meaning the image is 1.8 times wide as it is tall (Spielberg uses this format a lot)) and 2.35:1 (meaning the images is 2.35 times wide as it is tall (Peter Jackson used this for Lord of the Rings)).

Widescreen TV's are 1.80:1 aspect ratio so they can accomodate both formats (if a TV is showing the latter format however 2.35:1 you'll notice the black bars at the top and bottom).

Anamorphic is a process of taking an image however wide it is and simple squashing it in the horizontal axis to fit the 4:3 (720 x 576 pixel) size of DVD video. A lot of DVD's (Leon being a fine ANNOYING example) don't use the Anamorphic process to store the images on DVD and when you play them on a normal square TV they look fine, however play them on a widescreen TV and the image looks 3.5 times wider than it does tall.

Enough ranting anyway!

Oh, and btw TV's are square because originally thats how movies were shown in the cinema (then they moved to 1.80:1, thento 2.35:1).