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The Wire complete box set

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  • #2
    Kudos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭Kudos


    DVD


  • #3
    bonphoenix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭bonphoenix


    It has never been released on blu-ray!


  • #4
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    bonphoenix wrote: »
    It has never been released on blu-ray!

    Never will either.


  • #5
    madcabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,309 ✭✭✭madcabbage


    Cant view it in widescreen mode which is goddamn annoying! :mad: A must buy for anyone who hasn't seen it.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    madcabbage wrote: »
    Cant view it in widescreen mode which is goddamn annoying! :mad: A must buy for anyone who hasn't seen it.

    Why would you want to either stretch it horizontally or cut off the top and bottom? I'd want to watch it the way it was made.


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  • #7
    madcabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,309 ✭✭✭madcabbage


    I get what ya mean but when your watching it on widescreen tv's you have the black borders on the left and right of the picture. If ya have an older box tv you won't have that problem.


  • #8
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    madcabbage wrote: »
    I get what ya mean but when your watching it on widescreen tv's you have the black borders on the left and right of the picture. If ya have an older box tv you won't have that problem.

    Nothing can ever be done about that. It was not shot in widescreen :(


  • #9
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,194 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    It was in widescreen when I watched it on DVD.

    Bits must have been cut off I guess but it was the default setting.

    Would rather that as a compromise.


  • #10
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    noodler wrote: »
    It was in widescreen when I watched it on DVD.

    Bits must have been cut off I guess but it was the default setting.

    Would rather that as a compromise.

    Maybe your DVD player or TV was stretching the image?


  • #11
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    The Wire was shot in 4:3.

    On a widescreen television this means two horizontal black bars on either side.

    Watching it any other way on a widescreen television is just wrong.

    I watch television DVDs every night on a widescreen telly. I'd say 90 - 95% are programmes shot in 4:3. Never bothered me.


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  • #12
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    The Wire was shot in 4:3.

    On a widescreen television this means two horizontal black bars on either side.

    Watching it any other way on a widescreen television is just wrong.

    I agree, stretching makes everyone look fat and everything being out of proportion but I know people who would rather that than black borders.


  • #13
    xxyyxx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭xxyyxx


    madcabbage wrote: »
    I get what ya mean but when your watching it on widescreen tv's you have the black borders on the left and right of the picture. If ya have an older box tv you won't have that problem.

    Watch it in a dark room and you wont have black borders and just a 4:3 image as it was filmed. Personally borders don't bother me as the picture isn't distorted. I once sat down to watch Ben Hur to find the picture zoomed in an attempt to remove the borders top and bottom of the screen. Absolutely poinless.


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