I'm really getting tired of this bullshit. I look at the dvd sections of movies, and all I see is widescreen. It's so fucking stupid. What is the point? I don't want to see two fucking black bars at the top of the screen.

 

Is anybody else irritated by this?

widescreen is actually better to view the movie in. i actually was a bit educated on this by my film supieror friends. it has something to do with widescreen is the actual film shot by frame used in theater and what it was shot on so you get the whole image while as apposed to fullscreen stuff is cut off. and the camera has to pan around more on full screen to make up for the lacking stuff left out by the less wide camera shot used in wide screen. but yea they knew how to explain it much much better but now i appreciate widescreen all the more and even prefer it. ;) b/c you realize you miss out on fullscreen

I don't really give a shit. I knew that already. I don't WANT to view it like that. I like to watch ALL of the screen, rather than just the middle of it. :rolleyes:

 

That's really only the public image anyways. They only do that I've heard because when making a movie, it costs them more money to put it in full screen. Fucking cheap-asses.

A decade from now we'll all have HDTV's and movies shown in a 1:77:1 aspect ratio will take up the entire screen, and we'll all be happier. :P

 

Anyway, I'd much rather watch movies in a widescreen format, because you actually see what was seen in a movie theater, instead of 2/3 of that. I have no idea how tiny your TV must be that it actually bothers you to have two black bars on the screen. :rolleyes:

Doesn't bother me at all.

 

It's how movies are meant to be watched. I'd much rather watch a film with black bars at the top and bottom than with the sides cut off completely. Anyway I don't even notice them most of the time, even on my 15" PC monitor. After discovering the luxury of a widescreen TV, I actually find it more annoying when I have to watch something in a full screen 4:3 ratio.

 

If your DVD player has a "pan & scan" option, use that. It removes the black bars so you can enjoy it in full screen, but it cuts off the sides.

I don't really care about the sides.

 

And I don't really think my dvd player has that option.

I used to think it was annoying until the new flat screen tv appeared in the house.. :smug:

Most dvds allow you to view movies in widescreen and normal mode. It used to bother me, but it's true, you do see more of the film that way.

No, most dvd's don't.

 

And who CARES about the side of the goddamn movie? I don't watch the movie to see the sides of it.

I prefer fullscreen but widescreen doesn't annoy me excessively. :/

No, most dvd's don't.

 

And who CARES about the side of the goddamn movie? I don't watch the movie to see the sides of it.

 

Most of the ones that I do have that option. Oh well whatever.