Fullscreen vs. Widescreen

[Kivat]

i used to hate widescreen, but now i don't even notice it. plus it doesn't hurt my

eyes like fullscreen.

i love fullscreen though, when i'm watching stuff on youtube, and veoh

 

[Bad Wolf]

Widescreen,on a big screen,with home theatre and popcorn mmm nice and buttery and warm oh my god.

 

[arnoldmcguire335]

I say both, since they have pros and cons.

Widescreen is mostly HD, so it's great. to avoid the black bars, use HDTV.

Fullscreen are for those who want it regular.

 

[koji17]

I'll say whichever is the native resolution. Some movies are meant to be fullscreen (4:3*620x480*) while others are meant to be wide (16:9*720x480*1280x720(HD)*. Whatever the native resolution.

 

[Inui Takumi]

Widescreen all the way. Like Shougo said, nowadays, movies are shot in widescreen format, so it is how it was intended to be seen. When movies are edited to fullscreen, some shots show the camera moving from one point to the other but in the widescreen version, the camera is still. That really gets on my nerves so if there is a widescreen and fullscreen version (which I rarely see anymore) I go for widescreen.

 

[BigMac1212]

How do you say "wider is better" in Japanese?

(I like widescreen.)

 

[Daikamonohashi]

Whatever aspect ratio it was created in. I am still baffled as to how anyone would prefer filling up the whole screen with half the image and effectively ruining the artistry of the shots by cropping a widescreen image.

I will say that 16:9 widescreen is a great happy medium for filming things in, but cropping films in any form is evil.

 

[JFC]

16:9 FTW! :buttrock:

 

[madmax]

widescreen for me because it's easier for me to read subtitles!

 

[koji17]

Widescreen all the way. Like Shougo said, nowadays, movies are shot in widescreen format, so it is how it was intended to be seen. When movies are edited to fullscreen, some shots show the camera moving from one point to the other but in the widescreen version, the camera is still. That really gets on my nerves so if there is a widescreen and fullscreen version (which I rarely see anymore) I go for widescreen.

Yeah, but not all movies are shot in widescreen. In the case that a movie you were going to watch was natively shot in fullscreen, would you still prefer a cropped version just to have it widescreen? I'd watch the native fullscreen over a widescreen crop anyday.