Widescreen/Fullscreen

[Squeek]

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I bet none of you knew, but I am a HUGE advocate for widescreen.

Flipmaster is correct. Movies are AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN made in widescreen format. They had to reformat things for tapes in a process known as "Pan and Scan", which means they cannot show the entire picture the way they intended as it is too wide, so they have to pan the image over.

You want to know why widescreen owns fullscreen so much?



ZOMG GOLLUM WHO ELSE IS THERE WITH YOU?!



Or not.



And what is he looking at?



Oh.



Hey, that town is pretty small.



Nevermind...



Zomg, big eyeball thing, but what else is there?



I see...

Well, I hate Lord of the Rings, but they are the best examples.

https://www.widescreen.org

KTHXBYE.

~Squeek

[banditcom]

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/\ EXACTLY what I was talking about.

[Omeganitros]

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Jesus, Squeek. Are you, like, this guy that hates Nerd Mainstreamity?

Or does everything you hate just happen to be mainstream by coincidence?

[jazzmosis]

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Just for a clarification, people. Widescreen is also the natural way people see things. The human eye works in widescreen. Try it for yourself by looking. . . at anything.

[banditcom]

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Jesus, Squeek. Are you, like, this guy that hates Nerd Mainstreamity?

Or does everything you hate just happen to be mainstream by coincidence?

More like fullscreen is fucking garbage. There is no valid reason to support fullscreen over widescreen. (period)

[Omeganitros]

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No, I meant his comment about not liking Lord of the Rings.

I agree, fullscreen is crap. I was gonna post that, but I that Squeek already had, so I was like "Looks like my work here is done." but then I saw his last comment, and I was like, "WTF?"

[The_Q]

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I'm a Pentel man. Bic Velocity comes in number 2.

And you can't beat Ticonderoga.

As for the TV. I own a fullscreen. 3 of 'em. Why? because We couldn't afford the pimping widescreens.

Now, to sum up this whole thread in two statements:

Widescreen>fullscreen

Ticonderoga>all

Q

[jewpinthethird]

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Widescreen is by far the superior format.

About pencils...my preferred media in Art. My best work has been done in pencil. And by pencil, I mean pencil, as in only one; a 20 cent BiC mechanical pencil. Recently I bought these "woodless" pencils (pure graphite) of all different hardnesses (10 pencils for 12 bucks). I used them once, and then never used them again. I've tried using other "more professional" pencils, but I always end up going back to my BiC mechanical pencil. Eh, just my two cents.

[hydrojakep]

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Pencils are ten cents jewpin.


oh and i HATE fullscreen.
Try masturbating then stoping right before you orgasm.
That's fullscreen.

[stretchypanda]

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<3 Q.

And <3 Hydro's analogy.

My ex insisted on buying all his movies in fullscreen because he had a small tv in his bedroom (still lives with his parents, who are very very very strictly religious and could possibly be killed from shock at the content of most of his movies). It drove me crazy... not only does fullscreen suck, it's starting to get hard to find. Hm.. it's a safe bet that anything about my ex did or does drive me crazy.

[banditcom]

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No, I meant his comment about not liking Lord of the Rings.

I don't think it's hating mainstream. He just has horrible taste in everything.

[jewpinthethird]

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Well, I hate Lord of the Rings, but they are the best examples.

www.widescreen.org

I thought Labyrith had better examples + David Bowie's package.

[emccky]

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Lord of the Rings was good, as good as wide screen.

[Squeek]

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I apologize to those I've offended.

3-hour movies don't fly with me. Not like I enjoyed the books either.

Star Wars just isn't my bag. Though, Omega, I gotta tell you that I saw and loved Outlaw Star. If Star Wars were more like that, it'd own hardcore.




Whoa, holy crap, just found the best example of all time.

Ready?



GOES TO...



Hey guys, there's one dude with a sword and some onlookers!



No, wait a minute...



By the way, I'm very much opposed to fullscreen releases. You know Ace Ventura? The first one? It only comes in fullscreen. I love the movie very very much. Guess why I don't even want to purchase it?

I'm not going to spend money to lose half the picture.

~Squeek

PS - If you have the ability to do so, play the same movie in two different DVD players in both formats. I did this during the Thanksgiving break with the movie Elf because 4/5 of my cousins are idiots when it comes to this. Even my sister will ONLY buy fullscreen.

PPS - The most used argument is that the black bars are covering the picture. You couldn't be more wrong. Research facts before posting. I'll give you a tip: www.widescreen.org

[User6773]

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I apologize to those I've offended.

3-hour movies don't fly with me. Not like I enjoyed the books either.

I just bought the RotK Extended Edition today...

4 hours, 10 minutes. Bet you'd love that