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Topic: When buying DVD/VHS, does Widescreen matter?
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Brian Michael Weidemann
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Posts: 944
From: Costa Mesa, CA United States
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 02-10-2006 10:02 PM
I will buy the widescreen editions exclusively. But this means I'm torn when it comes to movies that do not have widescreen versions available. I've been wanting to buy Fierce Creatures on DVD forever. That was a Scope movie, and this title is ONLY available in a full screen format DVD. So, maybe if I'm patient, they'll eventually do their Collector's Edition ... but it wasn't a popular movie, and some would say it was horrible, so that probably won't happen. So, what do I do? Cave in and order the full screen from Amazon?
quote: Bobby Henderson 95% of electronics stores load up foolscreen DVDs on their demo HD monitors and put them in that stretch mode
I've noticed this, too! The stretched image gives me a headache immediately, and some people don't even know what I'm talking about when I point it out. I also noticed once that a "widescreen" edition of a movie--one that was NOT "enhanced for widescreen television"--was playing on a widescreen television, in stretch mode! Widescreen television WITH letterbox framing AND the image was stretched to the edges. I couldn't watch five seconds of that! And they were trying to SELL this to people!?
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