Widescreen Blue-ray rant

[Mr. Clean]

WTF! why would you want to watch a blue-ray in widescreener than your widescreen????? blue-ray players are already expensive as fuck and LCD tv's aren't cheap either. so why would i NOT want to harness all the screen?

put in a movie last night on my fairly small 37in. tv and right off the bat i lost fucking 2 1/2- 3 inches of my screen. blue-ray is supposed to cater to the widescreen tv crowd and fill the whole fucking screen

anyone else feel as i do?

[Humphrizzle]

i dont like wide screen movies ever.. i wish they'd just fucking fill up the screen.

[Mr. Clean]

yeah not once have a sat through a widescreen movie and been like "man that was effective"

lol

[thepolecat]

Get out the flaming torches------ ON TO BEST BUY

[fivex684]

The movie was shot in that aspect ratio. It has nothing to do with it being a Blu Ray.

[Mr. Clean]

i know but why would you film in that aspect ratio when you know the film will go to blue-ray. or with the technology i guarantee you that they could find a way to fill up my fucking screen lol.

[BKgen®]

1. It's Blu-Ray... not blue-ray.

2. The aspect ratio of the film is different than that of your tv. Not really rocket science....

That's the way the film was in theaters, and that's the way it's meant to be watched at home. You're more than welcome to change the settings on your TV to make it stretch from top to bottom, but then you'd really be wasting your HD.


ps - I can deal with letterbox... I can't deal with pan & scan. That shit pisses me off so much.

[fivex684]

With my TV I can change the aspect ratio/stretch the image to fit if I want? I never do it because it deforms the image and doesn't look right. Honestly though it has never bothered me.

[Mr. Clean]

all you guys suck! lol blu-ray schmlu ray.

i want my whole screen fulla movie!

[Dirty Octopus™]

i feel you. i wish it wasnt the case even on my 48" in the living room

[BKgen®]

i want my whole screen fulla movie!

Get a VCR.

lol.

[uproot]

lol @ widescreener


good luck with all that nonsense though

[Deke]

Get a VCR.

lol.

Lol

[Sir_Christopher]

WTF! why would you want to watch a blue-ray in widescreener than your widescreen????? blue-ray players are already expensive as fuck and LCD tv's aren't cheap either. so why would i NOT want to harness all the screen?

put in a movie last night on my fairly small 37in. tv and right off the bat i lost fucking 2 1/2- 3 inches of my screen. blue-ray is supposed to cater to the widescreen tv crowd and fill the whole fucking screen

anyone else feel as i do?

i have a 52 inch tv and it takes about 5 inches from the top and bottom its like almost a foot of empty space...... i was pissed when i tried to watch bat man.... i turned it off

[03RCode]

i have a 52 inch tv and it takes about 5 inches from the top and bottom its like almost a foot of empty space...... i was pissed when i tried to watch bat man.... i turned it off

Same here. I was watching The Dark Knight on my 52" and it took a good 6" off top and bottom. Rediculous.

[JITB]

lol..stick to regular dvd's.

[Deke]

I'm trying to figure out if the people complaining grasp why movies are widescreen, or if they think that some DVDs and Blu-rays don't completely fill their screen just for shits and giggles.

[ISAtlanta300]

Wel, go complain to the filmmakers. Has nothing to do with Blu-ray.

[JITB]

I'm trying to figure out if the people complaining grasp why movies are widescreen, or if they think that some DVDs and Blu-rays don't completely fill their screen just for shits and giggles.

Some people go nuts for this technology, but truth is most people dont have the tv's to properly view this stuff.

[Mr. Clean]

now i completely understand why all this happened. it just sucks that the film would have been shot in that aspect ratio to begin with. all the film makers know that the film will be going to DVD and blu-ray, so why would they not shoot in the best fitting format for the millions of LCD "widescreen" tv's that are flying off the shelves right now. our TV's are already built to view the film at a 16:9 vs the 4:3 or whatever it is of a basic square tube television. i always thought the black bars on the top and bottom were to simulate a wide screen format on a square tv. the flat-screens that are coming out now are built for fucking wide screen. so why go even more wide screen then fucking widescreen is all i mean.

[Deke]

Because movies are made for theaters, not your living room. When someone is making a movie they don't think "hey I should make this formatted perfectly so some couch potato can watch it on his plasma." They think, "I want to make this look as badass as I possibly can so everyone rushes to the theater and critics love it." Just about any film that values it's cinematography (think Dark Knight, Gladiator, LOTR) is going to want it to look as grand and "epic" as possible. This is achieved by shooting in very high aspect ratio.

[SPOOLIN]

wtf i usually have about an inch or maybe 1.5 inch off the top and bottom on my panasonic 42" and blu ray. Its perfectly fine to me and im never bothered. Id rather see more of the movie with a 3" gap top and bottom(not in my case though) then having them snip the sides off and make everyone's heads the size of a blimp in 4:3 mode. Make sure to fine tune any firmware settings if available.

[BKgen®]

Because movies are made for theaters, not your living room. When someone is making a movie they don't think "hey I should make this formatted perfectly so some couch potato can watch it on his plasma." They think, "I want to make this look as badass as I possibly can so everyone rushes to the theater and critics love it." Just about any film that values it's cinematography (think Dark Knight, Gladiator, LOTR) is going to want it to look as grand and "epic" as possible. This is achieved by shooting in very high aspect ratio.

Thank you.