widescreen/fullscreen

[blu-ray fan002]

Why can't studios put the widescreen/fullscreen option on one disc and let the viewer choose which one to view when hitting "play" on the main menu? A lot of people where I work have a hard telling the difference between which is widescreen and fullscreen.

[Krayon]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

Why can't studios put the widescreen/fullscreen option on one disc and let the viewer choose which one to view when hitting "play" on the main menu? A lot of people where I work have a hard telling the difference between which is widescreen and fullscreen.

Why waste time with a movie that doesn't represent the director's intent? Full screen is an abomination and I'm glad that it's essentially gone.

[Banjo]

OAR. Period.

[Gamma_Winstead]

because technically all Blu movies are widescreen.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Banjo

OAR. Period.

Even Academy Ratio?

That is going to be the irony. Having dealt with a decade of people whining about letterbox on their 4:3 sets, now we'll have many of the same people whining about side bars on their widescreen sets.

Gary

[cartman781]

I stopped getting fullscreen movies a looong time ago

[ajc68]

A movie should not be cropped from say 2:35.1 to 1:85.1 just to fill the screen up. That is just plain asinine, and it’s already something you can do with your remote anyway. Furthermore, it would take up too much disc space, cost too much money, and ruin the movie as it’s not intended to be seen that way. The funny thing is, I never even notice the black bars because I’m actually focused on watching the movie. What a concept! Get over it people and start concentrating on what your getting by actually having the black bars.

[tntkain]

because fullscreen is not good

[U4K61]

Originally Posted by cartman781

I stopped getting fullscreen movies a looong time ago

Originally Posted by Kratos3

Do people not get it? Full screen chops the left and right sides of the picture.

The DVD Story

I like to show friends and family the 5 HDTVs we have, and then go on to explain the benefits of Blu ray, HDMI, and the 16:9 aspect ratio. Later, I would say you can't go wrong in getting me a movie for the holidays. When Christmas time comes around, I get all excited about the good food, seeing old friends, and someone passing me a small flat gift wrapped rectungular box. I only hope it is not a movie I already own. I rush to open it. My heart sinks when I see its a DVD with the words 'Full Screen' printed on the cover. A older lady bent over a bit by age, separates herself from the crownd in the kitchen, walks up to me slowly, and puts a damp hand gently on my back and says in a soft voice: "How do you like your gift?" Biting my lips I say, "Its fine, just fine, I really like it". "Good, I will see to it that I get you something like it next year!

Back to Best/Worst Xmas Gift

[Kirsty_Mc]

Original Aspect Ratio every time.

I fully expect to see Lawrence of Arabia as David Lean intended, not with the edges stuck in my speakers. I also fully expect Gone with the Wind to have black bars down the sides and not zoomed to fill the screen, ie composed... exactly as Mr Selznick made it.

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Even Academy Ratio?

That is going to be the irony. Having dealt with a decade of people whining about letterbox on their 4:3 sets, now we'll have many of the same people whining about side bars on their widescreen sets.

Gary

Yep. I have some movies in these ratios on DVD. Don't bother me at all.

[Deciazulado]

If everybody had a constant image height set up, most people wouldn't be as bothered too. "Letterboxing" makes every shot look smaller.

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by Krayon

Why waste time with a movie that doesn't represent the director's intent? Full screen is an abomination and I'm glad that it's essentially gone.

I agree 100%

[Big Daddy]

If you want full screen, buy VHS. When you go to a theater, you don't get a choice between fullscreen or widescreen. Imagine watching Lawrence of Arabia in full screen. The movie was shot on 70mm film and it is extremely wide. I taped it many years ago on my Beta machine. It looks baaaadddd!!!

[DisneyKrayzie]

Originally Posted by Krayon

Why waste time with a movie that doesn't represent the director's intent? Full screen is an abomination and I'm glad that it's essentially gone.

I agree too! I always hated when I could not get the DVD in widescreen and was stuck with a fullscreen disc. You lose 25% of the picture when your crop up a widescreen movie into fullscreen, dont see why so many people prefered watching full screen

[blu-backer]

Originally Posted by DisneyKrayzie

I agree too! I always hated when I could not get the DVD in widescreen and was stuck with a fullscreen disc. You lose 25% of the picture when your crop up a widescreen movie into fullscreen, dont see why so many people prefered watching full screen

While I didn't like it, I think people preferred watching full screen because they didn't like black bars and/or they had a small screen to begin with, so full screen was the better choice for them.

That said, full screen has no place in this day and age of HDTVs. If you have an HDTV, you should be watching the movie in the correct aspect ratio and not a cropped full screen version, IMHO.

[blu-ray fan002]

Believe me, I hate fullscreen because the picture is too focused on one thing. The studios have put both versions on 1 disc before and they make it so hard to tell which is wide and fullscreen and it annoys me when customers come up asking "Is this wide or fullscreen?"

[coachD]

Pardon me, but the name of this site is: Blu-ray.com

Why are you asking a question that only deals with standard DVDs?

Go to Standarddvd.com to ask those silly questions.

All High Def movies are wide screen.

This question just does not belong on a Blu-ray site.

[MFS3Kiryu]

Originally Posted by coachD

Pardon me, but the name of this site is: Blu-ray.com

Why are you asking a question that only deals with standard DVDs?

Go to Standarddvd.com to ask those silly questions.

All High Def movies are wide screen.

This question just does not belong on a Blu-ray site.

This might not be such a standard definition only problem. The SD-DVD of Lord of War was enlarged and cropped to fill a 16x9 screen completely, even though the actual theatrical release was wider then that.

So while technically the DVD says "Widescreen" it is not OAR and is in fact "Formatted to fit a 16x9 screen". I can easily see this happening on BD, with movies being cropped to fit 16x9. Why? I couldn't tell you.

I worked at Blockbuster for a year and I had some woman calling me and asking how to make the movie fullscreen and she kept saying "It's like half a picture! Its half a picture!" and I told her "Ma'am, the movie is supposed to look like that, that is how it was filmed, good bye."

But for all the nuts who want fullscreen, just hit zoom.

[Ascended_Saiyan]

I just had this argument with a friend of the family a few days ago. It started to get heated, so I backed off short of making fun of their choice. Then, again, maybe I eased a joke in there slightly before it got heated. I can't remember.