WARNING - new DVD is NOT widescreen
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WarpedRecord — 19 years ago(September 23, 2006 06:48 PM)
This is ridiculous! I simply hate when films are not released widescreen, or at least without the option of widescreen. We miss a lot of the image when it is cropped for a television set's dimensions, and it's often obvious that something is wrong with this picture. I'm sure there are still a handful of folks bothered by those black bars, but I suspect that most of the audience wants to see movies the way they were filmed.
What will it take for studios to stop insulting the viewers? A revolt of grumpy cinephiles? -
skarebo — 19 years ago(October 14, 2006 08:57 PM)
You see,
but it was released in widescreen
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For Europe.
Lots of films, available in US only as Fool-Screen Pan&Scam crapped versions, were released in WideScreen for Region 2.
There is something very wrong here -
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jbaker1-2 — 19 years ago(November 17, 2006 05:36 AM)
I do understand why some people are so militant about this, but I can't say I agree with them. Despite the (usually boring) pretensions of some "intellectual" filmmakers, movies are first and foremost entertainment, not art, and to those of us who just want to be able to watch our favorite movies whenever we like, "it isn't the way the director intended it to be seen" or "you're missing part of the picture" are not convincing arguments. For my money, having full screen transfers of my favorite movies is better than not having them at all.
Wide screen is indeed preferable if you have a TV that's designed for it, but if, like me, you have only a 27" standard definition CRT TV, wide screen - in particular the super wide screen transfers that cover only the middle third of the screen on a SDTV and wouldn't fill the entire screen even on a 16:9 HDTV - just doesn't cut it. Personally, at least until I can afford a better TV, I wish there were more full screen transfers available. Given the size of the screen available to me, I'd rather have a larger cropped image than a small "correct" one. -
bongonoggin — 19 years ago(December 04, 2006 07:20 PM)
I disagree. I'll take widescreen over fullscreen no matter what size tv I'm watching on. Whenever I become aware of the pan and scan I become instantly distracted and irritated by it. To each his own I suppose but I personally go out of my way to avoid pan and scan.
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good_and_evil — 19 years ago(March 21, 2007 06:20 PM)
Yes, that was it. I could never remember his name, but I couldn't forget about the crucifix. Many people were offended, but I didn't know what to think of it when I first saw it at Wikipedia.
MY METAL BOY!
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walkingf00l — 18 years ago(April 13, 2007 08:02 PM)
Yeah, the full-screen is annoying, but at least the dvd doesn't have the extremely painful digital PAN AND SCAN. My copy of Starman has that and it is so distracting it looks like the movie has entered another dimension every time they pan.
Fortunately, 95% of the new releases are given in widescreen, so it's hard to really complain. -
grambax — 17 years ago(May 16, 2008 09:59 PM)
Hi,
Can you give me any further advice on the DVDs walkingf001 (or anyone else)?
I do understand that they are full screen (boo) but there are two ways to achieve this - one is Pan and Scan (or just cropping the edges without scanning), and the other is an open matte, where we actually get more (irrelevant) picture at the top and bottom than we were intended to see, thus filling the screen. The latter isn't as good as widescreen but is at least the more livable. Your comments above seem to suggest that this might be the case here.
I'm in the UK so would actually have to import them and I'm reluctant to do so if they are missing the edges of the picture. I'd be grateful for any advice. -
walkingf00l — 17 years ago(January 19, 2009 02:28 PM)
I believe they just cropped the left and right sides. Only instance where i remember where an open matte was used was in an early release of Willy Wonka. I could be wrong. But GOM doesn't suffer much by losing the edges.
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