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Posted by Beavis on 08/23/06 14:15
In article <YTVGg.200$wo2.190@newsfe05.lga>,
Christopher Range <chrisrange@charter.net> wrote:
> What I mean by the subject is, does anyone know of a place that has Full
> Screen versions films? Everywhere I look, Widescreen is the primary
> verson a film was done in. I have a digital Full Screen tv don't want
> to buy a wide screen tv.
You don't need to. Widescreen DVDs will play fine on your TV, with
unused areas on the top and bottom. (It's called "letterboxing.") Your
DVD player knows how to handle this.
"Full-screen" is a misnomer -- the movies were shot with a wide movie
screen in mind. *THAT'S* the "full" picture. In order to get the image
to fill your TV screen in the form of a "full-screen" DVD, they crop the
sides off of your movie. Sometimes they'll electronically pan-and-scan
within the original movie frame in order to see all the characters! It
looks awful, and you're losing content.
Here's some more information I found with a brief search:
http://www.widescreen.org/widescreen.shtml
Watch the animation at the top of the screen; it visually depicts what I
described above.
If you're bound and determined to have "full-screen" movies, they're out
there. But they're very much in the minority; most of the movies out
there are widescreen only for a reason.
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