Blu-ray versions Inferior to Cable TV versions

[A Tortured Duckling]

Originally Posted by jimgamer

when i watch blu-ray movies that have "black bars" at the "top and bottom," i often use the "zoom" feature in order to eliminate the black bars. But in many movies, there are subtitles and text that appears closer to the left or closer to the right. This causes the text and/or subtitles to be unreadable.

Originally Posted by jimgamer

thank you. ... This problem needs to be corrected. ... The hdtv sets we use are in the 16:9 format. Whenever possible, it is in our best interest to watch movies in 16:9 with as much of the original data as possible. When a blu-ray is "cropped" into the 2:35:1 format, it truly is a terrible thing. It literally means we would be better off watching the movie on comcast, because we would be seeing "more" of the movie.

Originally Posted by jimgamer

we may even want to get a petition going to fix this.

Originally Posted by jimgamer

I'm very disappointed in the Blu-ray format. I really cannot believe an unbiased person would say, "I'd rather see two-thirds of a skyscraper in the Blu-ray version rather than the full skyscraper in the Comcast version."

This is so ridiculous that it makes me feel like this guy has to be trolling. This just can't be real.