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Old 24-10-2010, 10:11
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I remember in the early days of DVD and when widescreen TVs were starting to gain in popularity, SHE released a number of 2.35:1 films cropped to 16:9.
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I remember this happening with some martial arts films, including Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, released in 2000.

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Old 24-10-2010, 11:14
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My dad is a stickler for watching 4:3 stretched...
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Old 24-10-2010, 11:45
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My dad is a stickler for watching 4:3 stretched...
Oh, I hate that. My Mum used to do that with analogue 14:9 material and thought it looked 'normal'. For anyone who thinks that I just ask them how they managed to get a driving licence with such poor eyesight.
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Old 24-10-2010, 12:25
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SHE?

I remember this happening with some martial arts films, including Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, released in 2000.

http://dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/snakein.shtml
SHE = Sony Home Entertainment.

I particularly remember Kalifornia (starring Brad Pitt). I had to wait for a re-release by MGM to get it in its OAR.
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Old 24-10-2010, 14:02
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SHE = Sony Home Entertainment.
Ah, the old Columbia TriStar.

I particularly remember Kalifornia (starring Brad Pitt). I had to wait for a re-release by MGM to get it in its OAR.
I remember it well.
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Old 24-10-2010, 15:18
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That's like saying you could crop every part of the Mona Lisa except for her smile, because that's all people look at(!)

However, the reason her smile is enigmatic is because of everything that surrounds her.

I saw No Country for Old Men earlier, and while I thought the film sucked, it was very well filmed, and even if people were in the middle of the picture, you couldn't crop it without destroying the visuals.
16:9 cropping is not as drastic as that - and film is definitely not art. Art is static, you admire everything about it. Film is where you focus on one particular part of the image, the one with the most action. When you watch the fight scene in Star Wars, you don't look at the background, you look at the fight, in the centre of the screen.

Cutting off a piece of the background is hardly going to spoil your viewing pleasure, and will let the picture fill the whole screen in the process. Of course, if you are a die-hard fan full-widescreen films are good to see, but for normal people like relatives or your parents, they don't really care about that, and often complain about the black bars.
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Old 24-10-2010, 15:19
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Cutting off a piece of the background is hardly going to spoil your viewing pleasure, and will let the picture fill the whole screen in the process. Of course, if you are a die-hard fan full-widescreen films are good to see, but for normal people like relatives or your parents, they don't really care about that, and often complain about the black bars.
These people need to be educated.

And also slapped.
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Old 24-10-2010, 16:12
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16:9 cropping is not as drastic as that - and film is definitely not art. Art is static, you admire everything about it. Film is where you focus on one particular part of the image, the one with the most action. When you watch the fight scene in Star Wars, you don't look at the background, you look at the fight, in the centre of the screen.

Cutting off a piece of the background is hardly going to spoil your viewing pleasure, and will let the picture fill the whole screen in the process. Of course, if you are a die-hard fan full-widescreen films are good to see, but for normal people like relatives or your parents, they don't really care about that, and often complain about the black bars.
Friends and relatives I have had to explain the difference to have got not problem with the black bars.

And film is precisely art when you're framing the picture right.
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Old 24-10-2010, 17:48
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These people need to be educated.

And also slapped.
I object to my parents being slapped.

(I'd probably slap you back!)
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Old 04-11-2010, 00:30
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Wonder Boys on BBC1 in 2.35:1 (which I forgot was due to be on. Bah! Will catch it next time).

I saw them show it like that before, on BBC2, then the last time it was due to be on I checked and it was... 16:9. Oh well.
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Old 04-11-2010, 11:12
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Cobra Mission one of a slew of Italian/German action movies from the 80s on Movies For Men is being shown 2.35:1
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Old 04-11-2010, 11:21
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4:3 can only be stretched as far as 16:9 though, it would look ridiculous stretched to 21:9.
I think they looks ridiculous, stretched to 16:9.

I prefer to have the black bands at the side, rather than have everyone looking podgy.

Round objects (wheels, clocks, planets etc) also look daft, when they're an oblate spheroid.
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Old 04-11-2010, 14:02
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Hard to credit the kind of people who sit watching a distorted version of film/tv.
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Old 07-11-2010, 00:28
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BBC3 are currently showing Blade Runner in OAR.

Slightly surprisingly they haven't removed the DOG, although it only just touches the top of the film image.
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Old 07-11-2010, 00:31
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BBC3 are currently showing Blade Runner in OAR.

Slightly surprisingly they haven't removed the DOG, although it only just touches the top of the film image.
BBC HD are Showing the film too and have also put the DOG on.

annoyingly however the sound is dropping out every few seconds
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Old 07-11-2010, 01:11
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BBC HD are Showing the film too and have also put the DOG on.
So much for BBC/1 HD controller Danielle Nagler saying she'd drop the DOG for films and dramas.
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Old 07-11-2010, 01:16
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So much for BBC/1 HD controller Danielle Nagler saying she'd drop the DOG for films and dramas.
Yeah and so much for HD quality. The film has been ruined tonight by constant sound cuts.
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Old 07-11-2010, 13:47
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ITV are showing a trailer for the premiere of Ocean's 13 on Tuesday, 9pm, in 2.35:1.

Well, Ocean's 5.2 at 9pm, and Ocean's 7.8 at 10.35pm, since they're too moronic not to try and schedule films that aren't going to clash with the news.
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Old 07-11-2010, 23:42
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Wonder Boys on BBC1 in 2.35:1 (which I forgot was due to be on. Bah! Will catch it next time).
Ooh, Digiguide just told me that it's on BBC1 NI in less than 15 minutes! (11.55pm).

For those with Sky, it's on channel 973.
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Old 09-11-2010, 22:44
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ITV are showing a trailer for the premiere of Ocean's 13 on Tuesday, 9pm, in 2.35:1.

Well, Ocean's 5.2 at 9pm, and Ocean's 7.8 at 10.35pm, since they're too moronic not to try and schedule films that aren't going to clash with the news.
Oh, it's just 16:9
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Old 10-11-2010, 09:51
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As is every James Bond film ITV have shown so far in HD. Granted the first 3 were in 1.66:1, from Thunderball in 1965 onwards the films were 2.35:1 and ITV are ruining their HD debuts by cropping them.

I don't understand their policy. They have shown films in 2.35:1 before, so what's the big deal?
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Old 10-11-2010, 13:27
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I don't understand their policy. They have shown films in 2.35:1 before, so what's the big deal?
Only after 10PM AFAIK, and it was possibly only new (non Universal) acquisitions.
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Old 10-11-2010, 21:37
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Only after 10PM AFAIK, and it was possibly only new (non Universal) acquisitions.
Only after 10pm? Do they all feature women getting their foo-foo out, or something?
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Old 10-11-2010, 22:17
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After 10pm? Do IQ's drop sharply at that point so people are less likely to complain about the black bars?

If true, what an utterly rediculous policy!
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Old 11-11-2010, 00:00
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Air America is on ITV 1 HD now, and was made in 2.35:1. I'm not near a TV, but I don't suppose ITV are broadcasting it properly?
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