i like fullscreen, because i don't have a widescreen tv.

 

My 2 cents, I paid for the whole TV screen so fill it. Wide screen is cool but it really does not matter which way I watch it.

 

I like Lifetime because all their movies are made for TV and thus, full screen.

 

So even though there is less of the original picture on the screen, it's better because it's bigger?

Movies are filmed in a wider aspect ratio than television. The only way to fill a 4:3 tv screen with an image from a movie that was originally filmed in a wider format is to chop off the sides.

Even on a 16:9 tv, you will still get bars with some movie formats. The widest movie format is 2.35:1, and a 2.35:1 movie shown on a 16:9 screen will still have black bars.

Depending on the theater you go to, they will either have a 2.35:1 screen which gets some of its sides covered with curtains for 16:9 or 1.85:1 movies; or they have a 2.35:1 screen which gets some of its sides covered for a 16:9 or 1.85:1 movie.

TVs don't come with built-in curtains to cover areas of the screen for different formats, so we get the bars.

 

Unless someone wants to waste their life finding out what they are missing by comparing the movie in wide screen and full screen. Bigger is not always better and at no point in my post did I state such.
I want to put in a DVD and watch it and not over analyze what is “better” to watch. I own both DVD's in wide screen and normal so I guess IM not really picky its a movie and my life does not revolve around it

 

what about people with widescreen tv's?

full screen tv does not = TV

 

i dont really care which way but when i do watch a movie in widescreen format, i think its cool just cuz its widescreen.

my gf's paretns got a widescreen tv and its freakin sweet.... im not sure they got it only because its widescreen and im not even sure they cared but damn when i watch something on it im just like what a damned sweet tv. when my gf and i bought our tv i was campaigning hard for a ws tv, she just wasnt havin it but we do have the option to change our aspects (there are a few presets in the tv) so not all is lost.

last nite, we watched Jackie Brown (Holly got me the collecters edition for Christmas ) and its in widescreen...

 

fullscreen is just the old way of doing things. They made a square because it was easier to make a picture on a square than on something 16:9... when tv's first came out.

Movies had long been on a widescreen format before TV's came around. People keep buying standard tv's just because it's what they are used to, which is understandable. Most people don't like large changes to things.

Widescreen > fullscreen

 

i think people keep buying standard TV's cuz they think that a bigger picture in both directions is better, and dont understand the concept of widescreen.