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I don't know because I've been watching movies on Blu-Ray since 2006 but I remember that Fullscreen DVDs were a thing for a while. That is, studios would cut off the sides of a movie to make it fit stupid old 4:3 TVs. Does anyone watch fullscreen DVDs? Fullscreen DVDs were poo poo and you a scrub if you still watch fullscreen DVDs.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 13:55 |
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i got a big 16:9 projection TV years ago and would rant endlessly about how pan n scann mutilated the director's vision and poo poo but now that it's pretty much impossible to buy a new 4:3 TV and you're practically amish if you keep your old CRT when a modest sized hd lcd can be had for a couple hundo, they don't really do pan n scan releases anymore. i'm going to admit i'm a lovely enough person that part of me feels cheated out of something that was so fun to be abrasively smug about
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:00 |
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dunno, i only watch 1985 transformers reels on my viewmaster.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:01 |
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bradzilla posted:you a scrub if you still watch
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:02 |
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You know what, that's true too.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:03 |
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but in serious, now the opposite is true where the same brigade of idiots who moaned about black bars above/below the picture now moan about stuff that was shot for 4x3 has black bars to the left/right of the picture, so they zoom and crop stuff to shut them up. never watch seinfeld in HD on TBS
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:03 |
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my tv was 2:4. everything was hosed. every movie was coneheads with that crazy dude akroyd.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:04 |
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lmao at you fools that aren't talking about a 21:9 projector so that you can watch movies properly. Sorry about your poo poo aspect ratios. (I have a pretty drat nice 21:9 tv also) Demonachizer fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Nov 25, 2015 |
# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:17 |
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The last time I used DVD ever was when redbox was a thing in Canada and even that stopped when it got so cold we decided we'd rather just pirate a movie than get bundled up to go to the closest machine.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:25 |
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and yet youre supposed to watch terminator 3 fullscreen a testament to how dumb and wrong that movie is
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 14:48 |
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I was a manager at a Blockbuster when DVD's were just starting to come out, and nobody wanted the widescreen version of anything. For about two years, part of my job every day was explaining to some bumpkin that studios were not just deliberately putting black bars on the top and bottom of the picture just to screw with them. Mind you, back in those days, most people had like a TV that was 24" tops so even if you understood aspect ratios, you were watching a small picture. Sure enough, all this complaining about widescreen cutting out the picture disappeared once LCD televisions started coming out.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:31 |
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kuddles posted:For about two years, part of my job every day was explaining to some bumpkin that studios were not just deliberately putting black bars on the top and bottom of the picture just to screw with them. I worked at FYE in highschool and we had so many returns because the widescreen DVD was "broken" or "bootleg"
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:35 |
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bradzilla posted:watching movies on Blu-Ray Lol, okay grandpa
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:40 |
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gary oldmans diary posted:and yet youre supposed to watch terminator 3 fullscreen It was filmed in open matte then poorly converted for 4:3 format. You're still meant to see it in widescreen. Or dont because as you said its balls.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:43 |
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rear end cobra posted:Lol, okay grandpa I'd stream if I wasn't forced to use a Comcast internet connection literally everywhere
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:48 |
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With 4K displays becoming more common I can finally play SNES games with a fully accurate CRT shader. Technology is great.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:49 |
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I grew up with VHS and remember when a widescreen version of anything was like a rare gem in a sea of poo poo
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:50 |
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Disliking widescreen in VHS format is legitimate. You're only getting like 180 lines of resolution or something out of it. DVDs would just stretch the image, so you'd use the full vertical resolution, but VHS was not capable of that.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 15:56 |
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Im pretty sure I still have a set of star wars trilogy special edition vhs tapes from 97 that are fullscreen. you could buy either the full screen or wide screen versions. The widescreen versions were silver colored and the fullscreen were gold lol
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 16:18 |
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I only watch Youtube videos on my smartphone.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 16:44 |
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you can take my 4:3 aspect ratio from my cold dead hands op I am saddened that not even steve jobs was able to make it a thing again with the iPad
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 16:47 |
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If anyone is interested, I started a thread on movie formats and widescreen in CineD: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3747647
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 18:01 |
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Non-anamorphic widescreen was the best. This transfer burned the black bars into the image so even if you shelled out $ in the early days of 16:9 TVs you still got a 4:3 image, but with black bars on the sides, top and bottom.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 18:32 |
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what's a dvd?
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 18:35 |
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The Puppet Master posted:what's a dvd? also, what the gently caress is a tv?
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 18:35 |
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ghlbtsk posted:Non-anamorphic widescreen was the best. This transfer burned the black bars into the image so even if you shelled out $ in the early days of 16:9 TVs you still got a 4:3 image, but with black bars on the sides, top and bottom. I have an early (1997?) copy of Blue Velvet which is like this. The transfer is also pure .rm quality.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 18:58 |
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the pan and scan release of A League of Their Own was horrible.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 19:34 |
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I still watch VHS ans full screen DVDs I watch all my movies on a 13" CRT and with the black bars cutting off the top and bottom on widescreen I can barely see anything if I watch ws
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 19:48 |
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ghlbtsk posted:Non-anamorphic widescreen was the best. This transfer burned the black bars into the image so even if you shelled out $ in the early days of 16:9 TVs you still got a 4:3 image, but with black bars on the sides, top and bottom.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:15 |
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i like laserdick
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:17 |
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NihilismNow posted:The only available DVD of the Abyss is like this. It is still not released on Blu-ray either and at this point i doubt it ever will be. Well that movie sucks so...
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:20 |
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But its not filling up my whole screen! *buys 4:3 dvds* *buys HD television* But its not filling up my whole screen! *watches 4:3 dvd stretched to 16:9 *
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:23 |
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lmao if u cran doon scuba morsh. pret a manger
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:24 |
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I watch Full Metal Jacket 4:3 the way Kubrick intended
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:26 |
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FogHelmut posted:But its not filling up my whole screen! *buys 4:3 dvds* For some reason, my mom would buy me 4:3 DVDs for Christmas because I hadn't switched my TV to HD yet, despite the fact that I had been buying 16:9 DVDs for years at that point.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:29 |
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Our 16:9 screen can be set to a 4:3 aspect ratio if we ever find ourselves watching something shot in 4:3 (a lot of classic TV was shot in 4:3 format). My wife is perpetually watching 4:3 stretched out to 16:9 and vice versa because she forgets to adjust the picture settings to the appropriate aspect ratio. She does not understand why I get so upset about this and claims she cannot tell the difference until I point it out and sometimes not even then.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:30 |
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Applewhite posted:Our 16:9 screen can be set to a 4:3 aspect ratio if we ever find ourselves watching something shot in 4:3 (a lot of classic TV was shot in 4:3 format). My wife is perpetually watching 4:3 stretched out to 16:9 and vice versa because she forgets to adjust the picture settings to the appropriate aspect ratio. She does not understand why I get so upset about this and claims she cannot tell the difference until I point it out and sometimes not even then. Doesn't your player have a setting to automatically switch over?
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:31 |
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Applewhite posted:(a lot of classic TV was shot in 4:3 format) whoa
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:32 |
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Iron Crowned posted:Doesn't your player have a setting to automatically switch over? Not for streaming TV.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:32 |
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Applewhite posted:Not for streaming TV. That's odd, because I've streamed plenty of things in both aspect ratios and I've never had an issue
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 20:35 |