How do you like your films on DVD? Full or Wide screen?

[Endangered Specie]

Poll question: How do you like your films on DVD? Full or Wide screen?

[bbernardini]

1. Surprisingly, "The Music Man" is a great example of the benefits of WS!

Try watching "The Music Man" in fullscreen, especially any scene involving the barbershop quartet. It's just plain stupid. It's a barbershop trio, with one of those monks who can sing two notes at once. I don't give a crap if my screen isn't filled. I'd rather see the beautiful image the director intended.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. They need to be in their original aspect ratio.

Widescreen for films.

Most TV series were made in a standard television aspect ratio, that should be retained.

Maintain the director's vision.

[Connie_Corleone]

3. I love widescreen.

All I need now is a widescreen TV.

[skypilot]

4. I don't mind widescreen except when...

...those dark bars at the top and bottom of the screen are REALLY thick. Sometimes they take up about half the TV screen and the movie seems to be squeezed between them. I just use the ZOOM option on my remote when that happens.

[asthmaticeog]

5. Widescreen, ALWAYS.

Why watch a film with like a third of it missing?

"The Graduate" is a stellar example of why you need widescreen. The famous scene where Anne Bancroft is taking off her stockings is a mess in so-called "fullscreen." (The real term is "Pan and Scan.") The screen simply isn't wide enough to get Bancroft's legs and Dustin Hoffman in the frame, so they cut back and forth between the two of them, utterly destroying one of the best-framed shots in cinema history.

I bought the "X-Men" 4-DVD set on fullscreen by accident and didn't notice 'til I unwrapped it, so I can't return it. I is pissed. Anyone who voted for "fullscreen" in this poll wanna buy it off me? Cheap?

[Speck Tater]

6. Wide. Anything else is an abomination before the Lord. (nt)

[anti_shrub]

9. Amen to that.

Anything on DVD that's fullscreen (except TV shows) makes baby Jesus cry.

[brooklynite]

7. On my 42" Plasa TV

wide-screen is the only way to go...

[Endangered Specie]

8. kick