widescreen vs. standard (4 to 3)

[CJM]

my friends and i were putting on a movie (13 Ghosts, or was it Barb Wire?), and they all wanted to put it on standard screen, instead of widescreen. i couldn't understand why they would want to do such a thing, considering a 62" widescreen tv was being used (but i'll forget that point for this debate), and argued this point. i find it hard to believe that people still would rather not have widescreen (cause they 'hate the black lines'). am i the only one that would rather have widescreen?

[Mr Films]

2.35:1 fo life

[TurdBerglar]

so they wanted to watch the standard aspect ratio on a widescreen?

[jabumbo]

do they not know that widescreen is how its supposed to be?

[abcdefz]

I want to see it in the aspect ratio the director intended.

[abcdefz]

When I sold audio/video and widescreen formatting started coming out, I'd use The Last Supper painting to explain it.

"Now, do you want to see the whole painting, or just Jesus and a few apostles?" It was a good image, and people immediately "got it."

[Jmoney77]

standard (4 to 3) for me

[ScarySquirrel]

I don't know about y'all, but when I watch widescreen movies on my widescreen television, there are no "ugly black bars."

As a matter of fact, those black fuckers pop up when I watch 4:3 formatted videos on my DVD player but on the sides... because it's on a widescreen television.

Anyway, yeah, watch shit in it original aspect ratio. Or like my man abcdefz said, in the director's original intention. Like Kubrick preferred most of his stuff in 4:3, so that's how it looks best, I reckon.

[iceygirl]

"i paid a lot of money for that tv, i want to use the whole thing"

yeah i think its an old people thing

[Ace42X]

Despite 16:9 being the standard ratio for Widescreen in the UK, I have yet to see a widescreen TV that can handle a perfect 16:9 picture. Every single one I have seen has either: Distorted a 16:9 transmission, or lost information from the top or bottom. This is after playing around with the TV's different widescreen settings (16:9, Superwide, Fullscreen, 4:3 zoom) to try and figure out if one is better than others, and making sure that the sattelite box and DVD is transmitting at 16:9, and that the DVD is presented in 16:9, etc etc.

Pisses me off greatly.

[roosta]

widescreen, everytime.