Posted by Russell Watson on 10/20/05 15:47

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:49:31 -0600, Black Locust <bl2112@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>While I still think the "I need a widescreen TV in order to watch
>widescreen DVDs." argument is utter bullshit largely perpetrated by Joe
>Sixpacks who hate the "black bars," this news is still a good sign of
>things to come..
>
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Despite only having a 15-y/o 27" regular TV, I personally refuse to
buy "full screen" DVDs. I've seen some pretty decent movies in the
Wal-mart $5.50 bin but wouldn't buy them when I discovered that they
weren't widescreen. The "black bars" don't bother me a bit. What's
funny is that my wife professes to hate them. Every time I put in a
DVD she would bitch about it. The last time it came up I told her to
hold on a minute. I turned on the VCR and popped in a tape of recently
taped TV shows that she likes, such as "Smallville" on WB and the
"Stargate" series on Sci-fi. I asked her "What do you see?" and she
didn't get what I was trying to show her. "Look at the top and bottom
of the screen. These shows are widescreen and they're like this every
week, you just don't notice because it's 'TV' and you just watch
what's on there without even thinking about it, but you have it stuck
in your head when it's a DVD that there's something about the ones I
buy that you don't like so you're anticipating it and tend to notice
it more."
Needless to say, she hasn't mentioned it again. Maybe the trend
towards widescreen TV shows is helping to make people more accepting
of it in DVDs.

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