Widescreen or Fullscreen?

[CowboyBob]

Widescreen - prefer it just as the filmmakers intended it to look

This...........

 

[chrisrobin]

This...........

I agree. The old "pan and scan" technique is just silly. I saw an example of this silliness from an excerpt from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The scene was of Tracy and Hepburn sitting at a table. All you could see was their noses and lots of space in the middle. I'll take widescreen any day.

 

[CowboyBob]

I agree. The old "pan and scan" technique is just silly. I saw an example of this silliness from an excerpt from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The scene was of Tracy and Hepburn sitting at a table. All you could see was their noses and lots of space in the middle. I'll take widescreen any day.

Excellent movie!

You can really tell how bad pan and scan is with that film, and also check out How to Marry a Millionaire, both pan and scan and wide screen. The pan and scan version has Lauren Bacall talking to a table lamp instead of the man on the other end of the table.

 

[perfectionist]

Full screen.

 

[gsdx]

Imagine how much worse the problem was on the older TVs that were more square-like with a much smaller resolution.

I don't have to imagine. That's what I have. I get black bars all the time and I hardly ever notice them:

 

[babyface]

I like full screen better!

 

[gsdx]

You're still getting the sides chopped off. That looks like it's only a 16:9 aspect ratio. The black bars would be huge if it was full movie aspect ratio. You'd notice them if they took up half the screen!

The bars are pretty-much standard for television programmes, which Merlin is. Movies vary depending upon the ratios. Some have very wide bars.

It's an old TV. I take what I get.

 

[JOHN B]

Isn't fullscreen the one that slices off the edges, to make it fit evenly on the screen? I HATE that. I like widescreen, where you see the whole movie/scene.

 

[gsdx]

With so many people throwing away their tube TVs these days you might be able to get a bigger and newer one for free.

It's a 27 inch diagonal. I don't really have room for anything bigger.

 

[doctorsun]

Widescreen. Fullscreen pan and scan is an abomination.

 

[trashkat]

Widescreen, thanks. I'd like to see the entire scene as it was intended.

 

[Kabluey]

Widescreen all day.
Then there's people who will stretch out an image so that it fills up their screen when the ratio is completely different. Wtf! I refuse to watch TV with these silly people.

Keep the ratio, keep the artist's original intent.

Man after my own heart - can't stand it when hotels do the stretchy thing and stop you from changing it.

 

[roadtripboy]

This might solve everyone's black bars on movies problems.

http://news.yahoo.com/vizio-to-ship-ultra-wide-screen-tvs-by-february.html