Widescreen/Fullscreen

[Squeek]

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Yeah. Awesome.

Anyway, this solves ALL your problems. Give it a view; it's only about a minute long. This explains the aspect ratios and black bars and such.

http://www.widescreen.org/downloads/widescreen-explanation.swf

~Squeek

[Omeganitros]

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Three Musketeers movie with the Eyepatch guy 0WNED. I'm the only one who remembers that movie in my English class. And I'm also really glad you liked Outlaw Star.

[The_Q]

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Mmm...extended Hobbity flavor!

Q

[zildjian133]

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Widescreen format on a fullscreen tv is what bothers me, but upstairs on our huge widescreen 70" tv widescreen is awesome.... Widescreen is superior....

[Wayfaerer_]

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There really is no aregument here, just a bunch of people that keep saying fullscreen is better over and over again.

[Braydz]

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There really is no aregument here, just a bunch of people that keep saying fullscreen is better over and over again.

Actually, I thought more of these people preferred widescreen... Anywho...

I own about 5 fullscreen TV's, only two of which are commonly used, and one large widescreen at my holiday house. I must say, for movies, widescreen kicks fullscreens arse, but when trying to watch regular TV on a widescreen, everyone looks shorter and fatter. I hope that in a few years, when widescreen really kicks on, that regular TV will be shown in widescreen, because widescreen really kicks arse.

But one problem I have come across; with my widescreen TV, when watching widescreen movies, there is still the black bars down the bottom on some. Or would that just be crappy quality CD's?

EDIT: LotR is totally awesome, best movies of all time. Well, close enough to it...

[Squeek]

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Braydz, widescreen TVs have an aspect ratio of 16:9. Some DVDs are even wider than that, and thus, you'll still see some really small "leftover" "black bars" onscreen.

Also, I know it's annoying, but there should be a mode on your widescreen TV to push in the sides and reorient the picture. It leaves grey bars on the sides, but you see it as you would on a 4:3 tv.

~Squeek

[jimerax]

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Widescreen TV is awesome on movies but just a waste for regular broadcasts anyways.

[ad0gg]

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I now realize how awesome widescreen is. But watching regular TV on a widescreen TV still annoys me.

[Braydz]

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Braydz, widescreen TVs have an aspect ratio of 16:9. Some DVDs are even wider than that, and thus, you'll still see some really small "leftover" "black bars" onscreen.

Also, I know it's annoying, but there should be a mode on your widescreen TV to push in the sides and reorient the picture. It leaves grey bars on the sides, but you see it as you would on a 4:3 tv.

~Squeek

Yeah, thought it maybe had something to do with that, but I can't seem to find any options at all on the TV, or our DVD player, that will fix it. But no biggy, our widescreen is huge.

[jewpinthethird]

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I own a widescreen TV (Hatachi), and I have no problem with watching full screen tv shows and movies. On my tv there is are three options: Regular (fullscreen), Fill (Wide screen), and Smooth Wide, which stretches the sides for Full Screen movies/tv shows. There is a little distortion, but nothing very noticable.