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Posted by Spurious Response on 07/27/07 05:41
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:43:57 -0700, Jordan <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote:
>On Jul 26, 3:11 pm, "def456" <def...@none.none> wrote:
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>> So the old adage and complaint about the blank/black areas at the top and
>> bottom of widescreen versions is a good one, because it's true. Those areas
>> were indeed cropped and removed from the film. You get a lot more real
>> content, and the picture looks more normal, with 4x3.
>
>Really? Here are some screen grabs from "Pink Panther Strikes Again",
>one of my favorite flicks.
>
>16:9 - A Psychiatrist offers a cigar to his newly "cured" patient:
>http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1259/pp01iu4.jpg
>
>4:3 - A Psychiatrist offers a cigar to a black patent leather shoe:
>http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7378/pp01pjd2.jpg
>
>16:9 - Detail of the Psychiatrist's office:
>http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3976/pp02lt2.jpg
>
>4:3 - 1/3rd less detail!
>http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/6927/pp02pjx8.jpg
>
>16:9 - Clouseau collapses in bed:
>http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/6966/pp03uy7.jpg
>
>4:3 - Clouseau and... um, something kind of blue. I guess it's a bed:
>http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2102/pp03pwk4.jpg
>
>Get the picture? Actually you aren't if you insist on that 4:3 crap...
Definitely beat the piss out of the retarded fuck with the facts.
MAYBE he'll feel the same way Nixon did, but I doubt it.
"Don't confuse me with the facts..." -R.M. Nixon, during the
Watergate scandal hearings.
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