I got another ignorant person

[gearyt]

Originally Posted by DealsR4theDevil

I work at a Hollywood Video and you would not believe how many of my customers with widescreen TVs demand fullscreen copies of movies. They would rather have deformed stretched out pictures than black bars. According to the most recent customer, he likes to get the "full picture," cutting off the sides of a movie and stretching it to fit your screen gets you the "full picture."

It's because thats the way they are used to watching SD on a HDTV

[gearyt]

Originally Posted by Iago

DUH!!!!!!

and thats the way it worked out of the box !!

[seto]

It's sad that people would rather have pan and scan than watching the video in its original presentation. -.-

[DealsR4theDevil]

Originally Posted by seto

It's sad that people would rather have pan and scan than watching the video in its original presentation. -.-

Yes it is, but it is not as bad on a tube TV. It is a lot worse on a widescreen TV because then your not only cutting off half the movie but your also stretching it out to fit the whole screen which stretches and distorts the picture.

[david2189]

why doesnt he just get some cardboard and cut it to cover the borders so he doesnt notice it lol

[WhoDat]

Originally Posted by glenn22

because they paid for the WHOLE TV SCREEN dammit! not only the middle part!

[Hawknelson05]

Originally Posted by DealsR4theDevil

I work at a Hollywood Video and you would not believe how many of my customers with widescreen TVs demand fullscreen copies of movies. They would rather have deformed stretched out pictures than black bars. According to the most recent customer, he likes to get the "full picture," cutting off the sides of a movie and stretching it to fit your screen gets you the "full picture."

That's almost as frustrating as my friend who cranks up the bass all the way so that it ruins the actual sound just because he likes to feel the bass. Is the bass supposed to enhance the sound or ruin it?

Why is it so hard for these people to understand these simple concepts.

haha, yeah I work at target and people got pissed off because transformers was only widescreen (at least at target). They would literally ask me then give me a dirty look and walk away when I told them. How is this my fault? AND I still have old people that come in looking to buy movies on VHS still! haha, I think it's funny that we're in a new generation of dvd and people are still recording/watching vhs.

The guys at blockbuster also tell me people rent Blu-ray all the time and bring it back later and say it wouldn't load in their DVD player. Then they take them into the backroom, tie and gag them, and torture for 4 days. No, not really, but I've noticed the general population is actually REALLY dumb.

[tron3]

Being the technical person I am, and aware of things like image burn-in, I am always subconciously noting "uneven screen wear".

While I have no problem watching a movie which is letterboxing on my monitor for a couple of hours, I am a bit anal about black bar syndrome on the sides.

I'll be much happier when everything on TV is pretty much 16:9

[savage1984]

Well, as sad as this is that people still prefer full over wide I have good news. After printing out the disney 5 reasons why blu-ray is better found here http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom102807/ I had to do very little to convince my co-worker blu is the future other than hand him the flier. He was very appreciative and is even gonna pick up a ps3 40 gb this holiday season!!!

[justinbaily]

Whenever some1 brings me,work at a local target, a fullscreen version i tell
them they have the wrong version,fullscreen's real name is garbage and basiclly send them off with the widescreen version. Most people even thank me for explaining the diffrence but very few who come across me buy their fullscreen
version.Of corse i sometimes add that when you buy blu you don't have to worry it only comes in widescreen.

[Leopold BUTTERS]

Well, at least there are more "Full screen" wide screen movies now, jsut as Stranger than Fiction or Spiderman 1 and most CG/Cartoon movies are flimed at 16:9

[Banjo]

For God's sake, I just hope the Blu-ray distributors will not cave in to modifying the aspect ratio of movies like they did with the DVD format just a couple years after of loud complaints.

It's ridiculous.

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by Hawknelson05

haha, yeah I work at target and people got pissed off because transformers was only widescreen (at least at target). They would literally ask me then give me a dirty look and walk away when I told them. How is this my fault? AND I still have old people that come in looking to buy movies on VHS still! haha, I think it's funny that we're in a new generation of dvd and people are still recording/watching vhs.

The guys at blockbuster also tell me people rent Blu-ray all the time and bring it back later and say it wouldn't load in their DVD player. Then they take them into the backroom, tie and gag them, and torture for 4 days. No, not really, but I've noticed the general population is actually REALLY dumb.

Well I'm into a lot of obscure Horror/Exploitation films and a lot of them aren't on DVD so I still have a few VHS tapes.

[Wheelman1970]

4 simple words - YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID.

'Nough Said...

[actionhank]

I like widescreen too, today. But i remember I used to only have a 14'' sdtv in my apartment and watching a dvd in widescreen on it from 6 feet away was pretty ridiculous (like watching on your blackberry from 2 feet away). Thats why i always got fullscreen, so i could see what was going on

[ramzadel]

hey guys this is my first post ever, but I have been reading the posts for half a year now. I was wondering whenever I switch to TNTHD and they are playing a movie sometimes the movie is stretched and looks weird while some other movies look great, why is that?

[DrinkMore]

Originally Posted by DealsR4theDevil

I work at a Hollywood Video and you would not believe how many of my customers with widescreen TVs demand fullscreen copies of movies. They would rather have deformed stretched out pictures than black bars. According to the most recent customer, he likes to get the "full picture," cutting off the sides of a movie and stretching it to fit your screen gets you the "full picture."

That's almost as frustrating as my friend who cranks up the bass all the way so that it ruins the actual sound just because he likes to feel the bass. Is the bass supposed to enhance the sound or ruin it?

Why is it so hard for these people to understand these simple concepts.

So you call people morons because they don't like what you like?

[reiella]

Originally Posted by mo_jt

Tuner Classic Movies TCM has about a 10 minute clip on why widescreen movies are better. I wish everyone had access to that, it really puts it into perspective. They show how Lawarence of Arabia or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers look in Full Screen and then directly compare it to the Widescreen version. It really drives the point home Why widescreen is so much superior.

I've been addicted to Widescreen since my laser Disc days in the late 80's. I simply refuse to buy any movie not in Widescreen, unless of course it was filmed that way....

I saw that before, well not that one specifically.

I saw it with Enter the Dragon actually. They ran Fullscreen P+S and Widescreen back-to-back. Very important title to show it on imo. I mean in P+S you might forget that Bruce Lee wasn't just fighting guys that were off camera.

[SingingTheBlues]

Get used to it.

It's what the consumer wants.

Widescreen TVs cut off less of the movie than traditional TVs do, and most consumers didn't bat an eye about that.

Eventually, more movies will be shot to fit home HDTVs.

[reiella]

Originally Posted by SingingTheBlues

Get used to it.

It's what the consumer wants.

Widescreen TVs cut off less of the movie than traditional TVs do, and most consumers didn't bat an eye about that.

Eventually, more movies will be shot to fit home HDTVs.

It's about what half the consumers want with DVD, depends alot on the title type itself. At least that was pretty close to what I saw when working at Hastings.

I really don't know what'd they'd do to make 4:3 titles 'fullscreen' on a 16:9 tv though, there's the strechy warp of course, or there's the vertical pan + scale [hello nausea].

Here's a fun question, would you rather pay for the 'entire screen', or pay for the 'entire movie'...