It is time for them to change the message before movies. I have a wide screen TV, so it has not been formatted to fit my TV. It should read something like, "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit the old TV you sold in a garage sale a while back."
Yeah, It's still not widescreen format though. Why doesn't HBO, pay per view, etc., have a widescreen channel? I hate watching movies in fullscreen format.
Unfortunately, we still can't escape Pan & Scam even on the HD channels. HBO and ABC have a habit of cropping 2.35:1 movies to fill the 1.78:1 dimensions of a widescreen TV set. Fortunately, Showtime shows a lot more respect for OAR.
Thank you, somebody that agrees with me ranting on why the hell people prefer to buy Full Screen versions of DVD rather than Widescreen. I wrote a rant about it in my blog a few months ago and here is my entry: For my little rant for the week, a few weeks ago, I was buying a DVD at Circuit City and while I was waiting in line, I saw this elderly couple asking the sales person if they had any "FULL SCREEN" versions of Lord of the Rings: Two Towers on DVD. I swear, why do people buy FULL SCREEN DVDs? Part of the joy of DVDs is that its at the highlest quailty picture and want you to know that you are NOT watchinig a damn VHS. People b*tch about black bars that are placed on the top and bottom of the screen, not all of us have a 13 inch TV. People like this make places like Target, CompUSA, and Blockbuster have MORE copies of the full screen rather than widescreen. Its pointless to watch a movie on DVD if its going to be full screen.I also hate it where DVDs used to have BOTH formats on a single DVD, but now movie distributors are being smart and releasing them separately, cause their some desperate mofos out there that want both.
A few friends of mine used to work at Blockbuster during high school, and people would get angry when they didn't have full screen version of something they wanted to watch.
You should move to the UK. We don't have "full-screen" versions of DVDs, they are all widescreen. Or you can't get the film in widescreen at all.
iControl on Time Warner has Wide Screen format available for most of it's movies. It's isn't HD or digital sound but it is widescreen.
Seems to me that if the movie you're watching doesn't stand up without you seeing that extra centimeter, or whatever, then it's not that good a movie.
In some cases, you're missing half the movie. And since the director took the time to frame the shots a certain way, it seems silly to discard that and, in some cases, not even show the important part of the movie (I've seen P&S jobs where the couple sitting on either side of the frame were chopped off and we simply saw the background with their noses occassionally popping in on either side). To me, it's not an issue of widescreen being the be-all/end-all, it's the idea that the original aspect ratio should be respected. I don't know why people would want to watch a movie with as much as half the picture chopped off. Pan & Scan is the colorization of the new millineum.
WS all the way for me I couldnt imagine seeing some of these movies in fullscreen it just takes away a lot of the feel to the movie. More and more channels are slowly switching to WS for tv shows and everything which is good to see. As for Bailey I wouldnt mind getting some UK dvds but it takes so much longer on an avg dvd to be released there and a lot of stuff tends to be edited for uk versions of movies. I did order the original he-man dvds from the uk kinda sucks its only 6 eps per dvd but its better than nothing. The uk generally has more american televsion on dvd there first which is odd but true
