DragnFly Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 With the DVD movement lately, your choices in movies have gotten more complex. There are several editions available, varying screen shapes, rated vs unrated, special editions and others. The rated and unrated are usually very little difference, more of a marketing ploy as i'm sure most of you are aware of by now. Special editions are just a way to sell more copies, usually including more extras which you'll probably watch once and not again. However the aspect ratio is a noticable difference. What I am curious about is, which do you prefer? or which do you usually buy? With widescreen, you (usually) end up getting the movie as it was intended to be shown in a theater, and is usually what most film buffs tend to prefer. With fullscreen, usually pieces are cut off the sides, but it is zoomed in on and fits your standard television. Fullscreen typically usually panning and scanning to view parts of the picture where the most action is happening at the time. Both have their ups and downs in my opinion, and I wouldn't mind seeing more DVDs include both formats together. Either as a duel sided disc, or including two discs with one on each. D's guide to 1 Item objects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Widescreen, without a doubt. Plus if I Actualy *gasp* watch a movie I'd watch it on my monitor, and its a widescreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I have a 32" Widescreen TV. When I watch stuff in widescreen it IS fullscreen. Nothing gets chopped off and its plenty big enough Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Widescreen, even though all my TVs and Monitors are fullscreen aspect ratio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownmasterofnothing Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Widescreen gets a small picture on my tv, so I don't like it. My widescreen laptop is good for playing games though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pault Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 DVD is obselete, all the hip kids are using blu-ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 DVD is obselete, all the hip kids are using blu-ray.Sucks to be their wallets. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augsback Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 DVD is obselete, all the hip kids are using blu-ray. That's not going to happen for a long time. The day will come eventually. Widescreen. Fullscreen is going to be obsolete soon with the emerge of HDTVs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caxis Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Fullscreen. I don't have a widescreen TV, but my dad got an LCD TV and but I haven't seen any widescreen movies on it yet. I mostly watch movies on my PC, since overscan is annoying and I can use headphones, rewind as much as I like, and use subtitles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foolgool Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 DVD is obselete, all the hip kids are using blu-ray.Sucks to be their wallets.Took the words out of my mouth. Widescreen is much better, IMHO. The code in my sig should say 1032 not 0132. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilsdragon Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I go widesceen with the option usually I don't go out and plan on searching for a widescreen format or special edition, I know what movie I want and I take the one that's there(as long as it's a reasonable price) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLancer Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Any as long as I can watch the movie properly :lol: Never cared too much about that.. But 16:9 WScreen aspect is cool for watching 'good' movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmay929 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I prefer Widescreen, even though I don't have a widescreen TV, and I have yet to watch a movie on my widescreen monitor. 122 Combat : 99 Hits : 99 Attack : 99 Strength97/99 Defence : 99 Fletching : 99 Woodcutting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman089 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I like letterboxed versions better, but i'm not gunna whine if it's formatted because I really don't see the difference unless it's a small TV or something. Gamertag: King Arizona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarfdude3 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I got a widescreen TV and it still didn't play widescreen movies in full screen, it was kinda stupid. I took it back and got a nice cheap fullscreen TV. I definitly prefer fullscrene over the black bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauke Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Fullscreen vs. widescreen? Eh? You mean the traditional 4:3/5:4 vs 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio? I prefer widescreen. I have a widescreen monitor and I just like it better than my old traditional 4:3 screen. Twitter ||| Google+ ||| Facebook ||| LinkedIn ||| My very interesting weblog about science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrM2000 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 *gasp* fullscreen? about 100 out of my 1,500 dvds are fullscreen... mainly the ones i bought back in 1994 (maybe 95?) with me first dvd player...(that year my tv was still fullscreen) also it's amazing how slow people are to upgrade...my mom has had a email adress since 1984 :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzimatt Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 widescreen all the way that way u never miss anythign on the top or bottom even if you have a widescreen tv like my 42" plasma it still puts the bars on the bottom i have yet to find out if full screen cuts anythign off on it since almost all my movies are wide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownmasterofnothing Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I think most people will stick with regular tvs, and ppl with extra money and techies will advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripsis Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I never really had/have a specific opinion, but sometimes widescreen movies are a little *too* widescreen :? Maybe it's just me, but they seem so small and I can't stand it. That's the only time I'd choose fullscreen, but other than that it doesn't really affect me. - 99 fletching | 99 thieving | 99 construction | 99 herblore | 99 smithing | 99 woodcutting - - 99 runecrafting - 99 prayer - 125 combat - 95 farming - - Blog - DeviantART - Book Reviews & Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celt23 Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 With widescreen and a large TV and the volume up and lights off it feels like you are at the theater. Get popcorn and a cuppa soda if you usually have those when you go to a theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrazotis Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 just get a widescreen tv then u can have fullscreen and widescreen at the same time without zooming i prefer widescreen thanks to mitsubishi64 who made this sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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