Widescreen or Fullscreen?

Theresa · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:19 pm Widescreen or Fullscreen?**

(Didn't know where to put this, Link...)

Anyway, which do you prefer? I personally like widescreen better. Didn't used to, until I saw how vastly different they were.

borgslayer · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:22 pm**

Both... As long as the movie is cool doesnt matter if its full or wide.

Theresa · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:26 pm**

Ok, rephrase. When purchasing a DVD, which do you prefer.

Link, the Hero of Time · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:18 pm**

(Bah, it's alright, doesn't matter.)

Personally, I like Widescreen becuase you get to see more, but those black bars annoy me to no end.

John Connor · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:02 pm**

It really depends on the movie for me. So, i have to say widescreen for the most of the movies i own but full screen comes in a factor for the others. So for me 50 for the full/50 for the wide.

ACDC Girl · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:09 pm**

I wouldn't really care. I like both.

Sam Kenobi · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:28 pm**

Fullscreen.

First of all, because my eyes are bad and I really don't like wearing my glasses and I don't really care to invest the time or money into contacts. So in fullscreen, it's bigger, and I can actually see what's going on.

Second, yeah... the black bars are annoying.

Third, you really don't get to see that much more. Like... uhm... ok, The Mummy Returns- I was on my Mummy Returns kick back in junior year. I had the fullscreen edition and watched it on that probably 12 times. I went to my friend Op's house and she had the widescreen edition. I only saw one extra thing and that was Evy laying on the ground while Alex did the chanting. That's like... not even important.

So fullscreen, definatly.

Lindley · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:44 pm**

Whichever is the original aspect ratio.

Cutting off the sides of a widescreen movie to make it fullscreen is unacceptable; cutting off the top and bottom of a fullscreen image just to make it widescreen is equally unacceptable.

Usually, that means I prefer widescreen for movies, and fullscreen for TV shows. There are exceptions, though.

Hitchhiker · **Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:54 pm**

Now that I have a widescreen laptop, widescreen. Previous to that, I could play DVDs on our fullscreen computer or fullscreen TV, so widescreen didn't look as good.

Lindley · **Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:52 pm**

Leo Wyatt · **Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:54 am**

I hate widescreen, it so get on my nerves. I like full screen better

IntrepidIsMe · **Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:31 pm**

I like widescreen. Looks better, I think.

Republican_Man · **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:58 pm**

Widscreen here. Looks better, much better, yes.

CJ Cregg · Commodore Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 1254

Widescreen

1. U get the full picture and not some poor hack job
2. U get what the director intened u to see, somtimes it blocks a whoel characture out and u dont see them or there expressions to say a funny scene

Micteth-Son of Udas · **Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:13 pm**

Wide, you ge the whole thing, not part
Like in the origanl Planet of the Apes there is a part when there is some form of trial i belive and at the edge of the screen you can see 3 monkeys doing the "see no evile, speak no evil, hear no evil" thingy,
in fullscreen, you dont see that.

Hitchhiker · **Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:34 pm**

The irrational part of me likes fullscreen better on fullscreen TVs, of course. To my eye, anything that doesn't take up all the available display space is too small. that's also why widescreen looks so good, in my opinion, on widescreen displays.

lionhead · **Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:28 am**

i prefer Fullscreen.

m021 · Lieutenant Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 218

Widescreen, 16:9 that is. 2.35:1 is another useless invention: you have a widescreen tv and you get black bars AGAIN.

Seven of Nine · **Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:19 am**

Whatever the film/tv show came in, as someone else said

Starbuck · **Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:09 am**

Well, I'm like Sam up there. I have pretty bad eyes, I hate wearing glasses, and I don't feel like contacts. So usually fullscreen. Unless I'm watching a really awesome movie (like the lord of the rings movies) then I get my glasses and live with them for 3 1/2 hours because those movies are so awesome and you just have to appreciate the whole thing. But nothing else really. Like when I'm watching Moulin Rouge, there's really nothing important that you miss having it on fullscreen versus widescreen. So I guess it all depends on the movie.

zero · **Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:36 pm**

I have a wide screen tv... and I think widescreen is the best.

Lord Borg · **Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:52 pm**

Funny story with me really, i liked full screen. Then I started getting dvds, and bam!! I want to get em in wide screen, but thats because I plan to have a wide screen tv at some point

nadia · cookie Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 8560 Location: Australia

Full screen, just because it make the picture bigger

Lindley · **Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:25 pm**

nadia · cookie Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 8560 Location: Australia

But with useing the zoom button it makes the picture go funny