i dont know about many of yous but i find Widescreen Bloody Annoying. Who the fuck would have thought up the Top 25% and Bottom 25% of the screen of your TV but cut out and replaced by a stupid peice of blank space, what annoys me the most is that the complete picture is cut out. Widescreen is more annoying than telemarketers and that 3rd form geezer that lives up the road from i do.
oh of course many of you will say "dont like widescreen, get a widescreen TV" well folks wake up and smell the donuts - they cost like fucken 3 grand.
to the person who invented widescreen - YOUR A FLAMING IDIOT!!!!
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//Who the fuck would have thought up ...
//Who the fuck would have thought up the Top 25% and Bottom 25% of the screen of your TV but cut out and replaced by a stupid peice of blank space//
I don't think that's really correct. Seems like the pictures been scaled back to reveal it's full movie width - but I suppose if your watching DVDs on a 14or 20 inch tv that can be quite annoying.
Widescreen doesn't cut the top and ...
Widescreen doesn't cut the top and bottom off, fullscreen cuts the sides off so you don't see the entire picture.
Hey L-Sam, I noticed that you killed ...
Hey L-Sam, I noticed that you killed the adds on your site.
I really fucken hate pop-ups, can you tell me how to stop adds on my site?
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The widescreen ratio was created for ...
The widescreen ratio was created for movie theatres to further differentiate it from tv. Any movie you watch in pan and scan is not the original movie version (read the disclaimer on video boxes). Widescreen is the original format.
hah, i knew you'd rip it out...
hah, i knew you'd rip it out
yes but now its spread to TV shows even ...
yes but now its spread to TV shows even commercials, W/S annoys me mor ethan that kid who lives up the street from me.
I'm not a big fan of wide screen. Some ...
I'm not a big fan of wide screen. Some people think wide screen is when they crop the top and bottom of the picture... a lot of music videos are shot like that. When you watch something like juice tv on a wide screen television and you see a video which has been cropped... it makes it look really tacky, like it was shot on a home video camera.
Some television is shot for wide screen. The director and camera op often marks on the screen the 4:3 boundry as well as the 16:9 boundry. For people with wide screen televisions... they get to see a tiny bit more than people with 4:3 televisions.
But really.. what is the point? Film/Television is simplified so that the view understands things better. The story telling is usually placed in the centre of the screen... So why give the audience a little bit more of the picture to the left and right?
Another thing... It's really annoying watching a wide screen movie on television when it hasn't been shot for both 16:9 or 4:3. It makes me cringe every time I see an actor looking right off the screen when there's all this space at the back of their head. Eeeek..
//it makes it look really tacky, like ...
//it makes it look really tacky, like it was shot on a home video camera
hey don't diss bro. heh
Hey, that's cool if you shoot ...
Hey, that's cool if you shoot something on a home video camera... but if you shoot it using a broadcast quality camera and crop it then you may as well shoot on a home video camera. It could be compared to using the digital zoom effect on cameras or getting carried away with the digital zoom effect in post.
// The story telling is usually placed ...
// The story telling is usually placed in the centre of the screen... So why give the audience a little bit more of the picture to the left and right?
There are more aspects to movies and music videos than story. When you want scenery to speak words or use composition as a theme widescreen format becomes essential for viewers to get the full experience. You aren't getting the director's original vision but some attempt to make it fit into a box.
what are you talking about shore? crop= ...
what are you talking about shore? crop= digital zoom?
widescreen is different from a ratio or cropping or masking.
4:3 is a very unpleasing ratio aesthetically in screen based, print, or web formats. trust me.
//what is the point? avast, my film ...
//what is the point?
avast, my film making mates arrr telling me that the ratio represents the ratio we see in our field of vision arrr. that is, where our eyes are in our noggins, and how we see more side to side compared to up and down.
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// When you want scenery to speak words ...
// When you want scenery to speak words or use composition as a theme
Good answer.
// what are you talking about shore? crop= digital zoom?
You'd know what I was talking about if you've seen a wide screen television fit a cropped or masked shot in to the box. It doesn't look good.
// widescreen is different from a ratio or cropping or masking.
Yes, you are right. But there are people out there shooting in 4:3 with the intentions of showing it on a wide screen television with the tops and bottoms cropped.
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well, as a filmmakery person, I prefer ...
well, as a filmmakery person, I prefer widescreen for reasons of composition, as others pointed out. There's actually a really good featurette (the Die Hard DVD of all things) that shows the difference between a scene in the film in it's original ratio, and then when it's cropped to pan & scan. It's pretty awful how much it destroys the cinematography....
but then, if you get mad about having black bars on your screen, then it's probably not really the issue.
Speaking of DVDs, I've been waiting ...
Speaking of DVDs, I've been waiting for Criterion to release Bergman's masterpiece, Fanny and Alexander, for what seems like ages. If there were any justice in the world, it'll be a 3-disc set: the complete 5-hour cut of the film over two discs, and the feature-length making of, Document Fanny och Alexander, on a third. We'll just wait and see. Hurrumph...
haha! my first experience watching a ...
haha! my first experience watching a widescreen was last year when I had the (dis)pleasure of going to a friends house to watch the soccer world cup. It was really strange, the soccer ball looked like a rugby ball because it was oddly squashed by the weird shaped screen! but not to worry, im sure in a few years everything will be standardised and all tvs will come in widescreen.