Poll: Widescreen or Full Frame ?

[Cozmo]

Which do you like best and why?

We like widescreen and only buy widescreen versions.

 

[KenobiKid]

Uh...widescreen. I'm absolutely irritated when I hear someone complain about widescreen cutting off the picture. It's exactly the opposite, fullscreen stretches the picture to take up the entire length of your television. This totally destroys the OAR of the picture and what the director intended. I feel sorry for all these people that are loading up on fullscreen dvds, within the next 10 years all TVs will be widescreen, so all those people that hate the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen will have 2 black bars on the left and right of their screen.

Check out these WS/FS comparisons:

Star Wars:Attack of The Clones

Lord of The Rings:TTT
FS

WS

 

[Islander]

I prefer full screen but it's not that important. It will take at least 20 years and probably longer before tv's go completely to HDTV (which was completely idiotic idea, HDTV is already 25 years out of date and not worth the expense) so that doesn't really go into decision making about my purchases. Also I do own widescreen dvds though-like I said it's not important.

 

[tqpix]

It depends on the OAR. If shot in widescreen, then I want to see it in [anamorphic] widescreen; if in fullframe, then I want to see it in full frame [even if the theatrical exhibition is in open matte].

 

[kurabrhm]

Uh...widescreen. I'm absolutely irritated when I hear someone complain about widescreen cutting off the picture. It's exactly the opposite, fullscreen stretches the picture to take up the entire length of your television. This totally destroys the OAR of the picture and what the director intended. I feel sorry for all these people that are loading up on fullscreen dvds, within the next 10 years all TVs will be widescreen, so all those people that hate the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen will have 2 black bars on the left and right of their screen.

Check out these WS/FS comparisons:

Star Wars:Attack of The Clones

Lord of The Rings:TTT
FS

WS

Good comparisons. I can see that widescreen is obviously better. I notice that in widscreen format you get the bigger picture. You can fit in more action in the widescreen format than in the full screen format.

 

[KenobiKid]

It depends on the OAR. If shot in widescreen, then I want to see it in [anamorphic] widescreen; if in fullframe, then I want to see it in full frame [even if the theatrical exhibition is in open matte].

I agree with you on that, I'm only saying that I want anything shot in WS in WS. Kubrick comes to mind with the open matte; Eyes Wide Shut etc etc.

 

[KenobiKid]

One website I stumbled upon says that fullscreen chops off about 36% of the picture. It gave this as a comparison to watching a FS film.

Any takers??

 

[oldrooster]

I prefer widescreen myself.....

 

[Roo6339]

widescreen, but only if you've got a widescreen tv (which we don't ) but i prefer it better...

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

I prefer the widescreen as well, but I occassionally buy fullscreen DVD's.

 

[princess_ballet]

I hate widescreen. Gotta have full.

 

[LadyDJ]

I prefer widescreen as well...can't really say I have a definitive reason though lol

 

[ever]

W I D E S C R E E N​

 

[kesmith22]

Widescreen All The Way BABEEE

 

[InnerPhyre]

Widescreen. Fullscreen makes me angry. ESPECIALLY pan 'n scan. Grrrr

 

[AngelAmidala]

I'm a widescreen fan too.

I do have a couple DVDs and videos that are full screen. But 99% of the time now I get widescreen.

 

[InnerPhyre]

I was at Best Buy the other day looking for a copy of The Phantom Menace and much to my chagrin, they only had fullscreen. FULL SCREEN STARWARS! Such blasphemy. I left very unhappy.

 

[Kestra]

Widescreen, definitely! One time I accidentally bought the full screen version of a movie on DVD, and I spent the whole time watching the movie thinking about what I was missing!

 

[SUNSTONE]

The only movie I can remember watching where widescreen actually hurt it was, scream.
They edit it a little different on some parts in the widescreen format.

Other than that, the wide screen is vitale to the movies feel.

 

[KenobiKid]

I'm pretty sure the Region 1 release of Scream isn't anamorphic, which could be what you noticed.