Okay, now that I have you in my thread *rubs hands together*...
I ask... no I beg, letterbox or full screen that is the question...
Why you ask...
Well honestly it is an ongoing disagreement between my husband Joe and myself. Me, I like letterbox, I like seeing the whole picture but Joe despises it, who knows why but every time its letterbox I can place 1K on knowing he will bitch about it. So the question on my mind is what is everyone's preference and why... is this a gender thing or what, please clue me in...
I literally beg for enlightenment, lol, help me understand why he has to bitch about it.
Your thoughts please...
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It's not a gender thing. My brother and I both prefer letterbox. If you're watching pan and scan, it's like watching a whole different movie. Someone else is redirecting the movie without the director's approval. Directors really hate pan and scan. I don't think it should even be an option anymore just like the colorization phase.
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Personally I've always preferred letterbox (even before wide screen TVs came out).
My dad used to prefer full screen to letterbox back when we only had a twenty seven inch TV set. He didn't like looking at the empty parts of the screen and because it made everything on the screen smaller (hence harder to see).
After the age of forty a lot of things become slightly out of focus and you have to either squint a little or move the thing you're looking at closer to your face.
He doesn't seem to mind letterbox since we now have a larger TV set.
My dad used to prefer full screen to letterbox back when we only had a twenty seven inch TV set. He didn't like looking at the empty parts of the screen and because it made everything on the screen smaller (hence harder to see).
After the age of forty a lot of things become slightly out of focus and you have to either squint a little or move the thing you're looking at closer to your face.
He doesn't seem to mind letterbox since we now have a larger TV set.
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Letterbox is where the picture of a movie/TV show is a rectangle on a square TV, with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen to simulate the rectangular movie screen that the movie was originally filmed for.Carla wrote:Ok I feel kinda D#MB here what is a Letterbox???
I prefer widescreen, too much is missed watching pan & scan. http://www.widescreen.org/examples/lord ... ndex.shtml shows some good examples using Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
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'Letterbox' is the general name give to the [usually] 16:9 ratio that the programme/movie was filmed in. This is the scale at which the camera lens actually records what's in front of it and commits it to film. When we see this format on TV, the black bars across the top and bottom of the picture are not a simulation of how a film's presented in cinemas but depict the full, intended view of the piece without it being cropped. A Pan & Scan representation [4:3 ratio] may fill the whole of a standard TV screen but the left and right hand sides are chopped off.Belldandy wrote:Letterbox is where the picture of a movie/TV show is a rectangle on a square TV, with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen to simulate the rectangular movie screen that the movie was originally filmed for.Carla wrote:What is a Letterbox???
If anyone prefers the Pan & Scan format they either have poor eyesight, as Keropi suggests, or they are plain ignorant of film's aesthetics.
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I am not sure I agree with your assumptions, Krafty.
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Thanks for the definition Krafty but OUCH >_< that last part was kinda HARSH!!! I think everyone has there own opinion I like Full Screen NOT because I'm blindKrafty wrote:'Letterbox' is the general name give to the [usually] 16:9 ratio that the programme/movie was filmed in. This is the scale at which the camera lens actually records what's in front of it and commits it to film. When we see this format on TV, the black bars across the top and bottom of the picture are not a simulation of how a film's presented in cinemas but depict the full, intended view of the piece without it being cropped. A Pan & Scan representation [4:3 ratio] may fill the whole of a standard TV screen but the left and right hand sides are chopped off.Belldandy wrote:Letterbox is where the picture of a movie/TV show is a rectangle on a square TV, with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen to simulate the rectangular movie screen that the movie was originally filmed for.Carla wrote:What is a Letterbox???
If anyone prefers the Pan & Scan format they either have poor eyesight, as Keropi suggests, or they are plain ignorant of film's aesthetics.
I like it because you see MORE of the people faces and less of the background!!! I DON'T care for the other way because it tends to cut people O_O heads off just so you can see more background I like to see more of the person or thing in the movie NOT more of the background!!! That is just what I like everyone likes something different and that is ok!!!
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