Standard or Widescreen?

Dude111

Which do you prefer??


I prefer Standard as i have always loved it!!

Widescreen is nothing more than a WIDER PICTURE.. A marketing scam to get people to get stuff THEY DONT REALLY NEED!!


What are your thoughts??

rednik

Widescreen so I can watch movies the way they were meant to be seen in their original aspect ratio.

ZENER

Dude111 wrote: »

Which do you prefer??


I prefer Standard as i have always loved it!!

Widescreen is nothing more than a WIDER PICTURE.. A marketing scam to get people to get stuff THEY DONT REALLY NEED!!


What are your thoughts??

It's not simply a wider picture ! There is extra information in the extra width. That said I despair when I see huge widescreen TVs attached to Sky or UPC boxes set to 4:3 aspect output meaning the TV (set to AUTO) stretches the picture in a most peculiar way ! To make things worse they're connected using a composite connection

The majority of output from TV and movie companies is Widescreen so in reality you do need a widescreen set to get the best from the majority of programmes.

Ken

henryporter

I prefer widescreen as it's the only way I can get to see the scores on Sky Sports football

adox

is this even a valid question in 2012? Its a bit like saying you dont like colour tv and prefer black and white.

Slaphead07

I suspect the "dude" is trolling... or worse.

Capt'n Midnight

rednik wrote: »

Widescreen so I can watch movies the way they were meant to be seen in their original aspect ratio.

*hugs Film4 letterbox*

rednik

Cropped images are a no no.;) Photos, film etc just so much lost info.

Dude111

Slaphead07 wrote:

I suspect the "dude" is trolling... or worse.

I dont quite know what that means but i can assure you I AM SERIOUS..

I prefer standard and im wondering if others do also.....

Zillah

Dude111 wrote: »

I dont quite know what that means but i can assure you I AM SERIOUS..

I prefer standard and im wondering if others do also.....

4:3 is a relic of cheap television production. Cinema has traditionally (for the better part of a century) been shot in a 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 ratio, meaning very wide, wider than the normal 16:9 television. The switchover from standard to wide isn't a new fad, it is television standards finally catching up with the rest of the screen-using world. All professional content is produced in 16:9 or wider these days, so you can't watch anything in standard anyway - all you'll get is an image that has been warped or an image that has to be shrunk down to fit your dated screen with tons of black padding on the top and bottom. 4:3 is too claustrophobic (and has actually been used deliberately to that effect in some more modern films). 16:9 is much closer to how people actually view the world and the change-over was long due.

mad muffin

Dude111 wrote: »

Which do you prefer??


I prefer Standard as i have always loved it!!

Widescreen is nothing more than a WIDER PICTURE.. A marketing scam to get people to get stuff THEY DONT REALLY NEED!!


What are your thoughts??

Pffff...

You youngens and your Television. I still prefer the Gramophone…

Porkchop McGee

4:3 all the way. I lost an eye in an accident as a kid so widescreen is just a mess for me, either I miss half of what's going on or I try to zoom around the screen seeing everything and my eye gets really tired like I'm watching a tennis match or something. 4:3 is the one for me.

JonathonS

That sums it up nicely.

1 eye - go for 4x3
2 eyes - choose widescreen.

mad muffin

JonathonS wrote: »

That sums it up nicely.

1 eye - go for 4x3
2 eyes - choose widescreen.

And what about four eyes? 3D? 21:9 ultra wide screen?

Porkchop McGee

mad muffin wrote: »

And what about four eyes?

I would be happy with two, son, but you know how hard it is to get stem cell treatment without resorting to the black market.

Dude111

Porkchop McGee wrote:

4:3 all the way. I lost an eye in an accident as a kid.....

Im so sorry buddy

3rdDegree

Dude111 wrote: »

Which do you prefer??


I prefer Standard as i have always loved it!!

Widescreen is nothing more than a WIDER PICTURE.. A marketing scam to get people to get stuff THEY DONT REALLY NEED!!


What are your thoughts??

Widescreen is one of the biggest leaps forward in television in recent years. It is much more than a different shaped screen. For movies, it is closer to the correct and original aspect ratio of the movie. A lot of TV programmes are now made in 16:9, so a widescreen TV is the correct shape for the programme. If you use standard TV, you either need to zoom in the picture and then lose part of it on each side, or preserve the correct ratio and have back bars top and bottom.

I suspect the vast majority of people neither understand or care about any of the above. Maybe they are they lucky ones!

Capt'n Midnight

It's important to remember where 4:3 came from.

The very first films were square - look very first silent films.

Later on they went wider to cover the area where the vision from each eye overlaps. But that meant you needed bigger lenses to cater for the extra width. 4:3 was a compromise.

After TV took off in the 1950's cinema moved to wider formats to distinguish itself from TV.