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Posted by Bill's News on 05/12/07 23:13
"Jonathan Brisby" <underthe@rosebush.com> wrote in message
news:edn243d8af6uqbqamp2dbkjn516sl593e5@4ax.com...
> Wow... Hey guys there is a lot of talk about cropping and what
> was
> intended. There was a time where I didn't care about what the
> director
> meant to be seen. Those days have passed but I still
> understand that
> some people feel like that. I just think doncherry wasted his
> money
> spending all that cash on a widescreen TV just to cut off the
> sides.
>
> Justin said it best "Watch the movie, not the screen." In no
> time you
> won't notice the bars and you'll be able to enjoy more out of
> your
> movie. If it takes a while, turn off the lights. The top and
> bottom
> are black well so is the rest of the room. :)
In a theater curtains or the like are used to shape the screen
to the image. There MUST be a reason they choose to do so.
My preference is to do the same thing at home using a video
projector, a 4:3 screen, and movable matting which together
would yield a wide enough picture to satisfy my personal
enjoyment.
However, I didn't happen to do this, although it might have
proven less expensive. Yet it was a strong contender for
setting up the viewing area.
I'm using a 1080 LCD. Some letterboxed and pillar-boxed videos
can be aspect modified by ~10% increments and nothing is lost
(which I might have noticed anyway). Some can not. Let's face
it, if the cinematographer and/or director are committed to a
single scene that benefits from cinemascope, the entire film
will be cinemascope. I'll use "Gangs of New York" as an
example. Beside the scene in which the two gangs enter the
street from opposite ends of the wide screen, when else was the
width of the image at all of value to content? And could the
director have not panned the camera to achieve an even more
dramatic scene? Scorsese is a schlock with a sympathy Oscar;-0)
I get the feeling, when viewing SOME DVDs, that the
director/cinematographer simply forgot to reset the aspect from
whomever last rented the camera - 2.35 framed as 4:3, come on!
It's like watching golf on HDTV;-0)
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