Widescreen or Full Screen?

Null · 01-10-2006, 09:18 AM

never understood why people got fullscreen movies.

especially since most dvd player now have a zoom option that can turn a widescreen into a full... so with widescreen movies you get both in 1. (altho i dont use that option, i'd rather have the full picture.. but still. if you actually for some odd reason did want it fullscreen.... get wide and zoom it.)

Canyarion · 01-10-2006, 10:29 AM

But as GM and I said, they sometimes cut off pieces from the top and bottom (as in Jurassic Park).

Null · 01-10-2006, 11:42 AM

no not sometimes. theres something about that jp one your talking about, whether they just goofed up or something else to it. but movies that are made in widescreen wont be cut off, because it would throw off the perportions of it.

perhaps they just didnt think anyone would ever actually buy jp

and gm said he became enlightened as to whats really going on. im not seeing where he said anything that agrees with that.

Canyarion · 01-10-2006, 12:11 PM

Ah, I now see that I misunderstood GM. Guess I was too upset about JP.

Null · 01-10-2006, 12:19 PM

i've looked up about jp, i have found absolutly nothing yet that says top and bottom were actually cut when made in widescreen. i mean i could get ahold of the dvd to look at it easily..but i'd have nothing to compare it to.. you comparing the fullscreen dvd to widescreen? or fullscreen vhs to wide dvd or what?

what version do you have? is it an actual copy?

Dylflon · 01-10-2006, 01:46 PM

Widescreen for me.

Always.

thatmariolover · 01-10-2006, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

never understood why people got fullscreen movies.

especially since most dvd player now have a zoom option that can turn a widescreen into a full... so with widescreen movies you get both in 1. (altho i dont use that option, i'd rather have the full picture.. but still. if you actually for some odd reason did want it fullscreen.... get wide and zoom it.)

They don't autopan from left and right when action switches places on screen though; which is one of the features that I think needs to be added to HD-DVD. The ability to provide panning information so that there only needs to be one format of DVD instead of worrying about Full Screen and Wide Screen really seems like common sense to me.

As for me, I always buy Wide Screen, but I know a few people that want Full Screen.

Null · 01-10-2006, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

They don't autopan from left and right when action switches places on screen though; which is one of the features that I think needs to be added to HD-DVD. The ability to provide panning information so that there only needs to be one format of DVD instead of worrying about Full Screen and Wide Screen really seems like common sense to me.

As for me, I always buy Wide Screen, but I know a few people that want Full Screen.

doubt it would happen, because as the media gets more and more into HD, and the switch to hd tv happens... they're all gunna be widescreen tv's anyway.. therefore just ruling out fullscreen alltogether anyway.

Krypton · 01-10-2006, 03:04 PM

some movies like Star Wars Episode 3 was good with widescreen, but others I prefer fullscreen.

jeepnut · 01-10-2006, 03:15 PM

Widescreen. Every time. Anything else is just silly.

DeathsHand · 01-10-2006, 03:52 PM

Always widescreen... And I have a ****-ton of movies... *counts list*... 75 DVDs, not counting the 2 or 3 music DVDs I have... And I'm sure that number will increase dramatically, as I have just recently found another job...

The only time I considered buying a Full Screen movie (VHS at the time!) was when I was dumb and like... 12 years old... Ignorant, as they say, to the differences between full and widescreen...

Now the only fullscreen movie I own is the original Night of the Living Dead... Since... It's not available in widescreen...

Canyarion · 01-10-2006, 04:32 PM

Null, I hope you don't doubt my Jurassic Park knowledge.

I've seen the movie at least 80 times.
I'm comparing the widescreen DVD (it also says Collector's Edition on it...) to VHS.

If you don't believe me, watch the DVD, skip to the scene where they explain about the DNA and cloning (the little movie with Mr. DNA). At one point, a drawn dino hatches from an egg and suddenly becomes very big. In the widescreen version, the top of the head is cut off.
And when the helicopter had landed, you can't see its position on the floor. If you could, you'd notice an inconsistency with the previous shot.

MrCoffee · 01-10-2006, 07:08 PM

now I have a qeustion, I am an hardcore gamer/inspiring programmer/netowrk techinion/regular trechnicion...more liek computer guru, anyway I am getting a 19inch LCD sometime nextweek. Tell me this I have a choice between a 19inch widescreen and just a regular 19. Not im wondering if this will make my gaming ability go all weird if i go widescreen, and how it will affect my workspace? Will everything get streched out or what? Give me your opinion.!!

Dyne · 01-10-2006, 07:29 PM

Widescreen will cost a hell of a lot more, I can tell you that.

Other than that, you might have black bars on the sides for some games? I think it all depends on your video card.

Your workspace should be fine once you install the necessary drivers.

Null · 01-10-2006, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MrCoffee

now I have a qeustion, I am an hardcore gamer/inspiring programmer/netowrk techinion/regular trechnicion...more liek computer guru, anyway I am getting a 19inch LCD sometime nextweek. Tell me this I have a choice between a 19inch widescreen and just a regular 19. Not im wondering if this will make my gaming ability go all weird if i go widescreen, and how it will affect my workspace? Will everything get streched out or what? Give me your opinion.!!

ah the exact same question i had when getting my new lcd monitor.

i went with the widescreen lcd. and honestly i absolutly love it.

workspace.. windows will work fine in widescreen. you should be setting the windows resolution to whatever the optimal resolution of the montor is.. mine is 1440x900. workspace is easily a lot better. you get more space left and right to work with.. move 2 windows side by side easier. its just a lot better. it came with stuff to install, but it worked as soon as i plugged it in. infact, you could probably test widescreen out right now... find a widescreen resolution and switch to it.. then go into your monitors settings and shrink the screen up and down.

gaming can get tricky. as far as for me, (i dont know if its the same for every lcd widescreen monitor) it wants to run every game in the desktop resolution. 1440x900, that worried me at first, but actually since its running at the optimal resolution, it runs them without any slowdowns or loss of frame rates at all.

Counter-Strike: Source was the easiest of the games to setup. i simply selected the widescreen ratio, and resolution and done.. the game looks BEAUTIFUL, i get an advantage over many people cuz i can see more to the left and right. and the higher resolution makes everything sharper (on my CRT before, the more i upped the resolution, the more power it needed to run the game, not the case when i put it at this resolution on the lcd)

other games is where it got tricky... Quake 3 and Quake 4 i had to go in the config and setup a custom resolution, really wasnt hard, they work perfect except for the crosshair isnt quite in perfect perportion.

Battlefield 2 doesnt support widescreen yet, but lotta people are bugging them about it, and theres some work arounds to get it working.. i got the game running in wide, but the HUD is stretched.

had to go into the config and setup warcraft 3 and unreal tournament 2004 for a custom resolution also.

i had a website that listed all the games and how to do it.

and it doent cost a lot more... 19inch wide was about the same price give or take as a normal 19inch.

I absolutly love mine. i've gotten all my games to work in it, (mine doesnt have an option to give black bars on the left and right, so if a game didnt then it would be stretched)
but most new games support wide i think now anyway.

i'd never go back to a normal monitor, wide for me.