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DVDfever
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by davidweller:
“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.”

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
Harlotqueen
24-10-2010
http://revision3.com/hdnation/settopbox#seek=646

My dad is a stickler for watching 4:3 stretched...
DVDfever
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by Harlotqueen:
“http://revision3.com/hdnation/settopbox#seek=646

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.
davidweller
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by DVDfever:
“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.
DVDfever
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by davidweller:
“SHE = Sony Home Entertainment.”

Ah, the old Columbia TriStar.

Quote:
“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.
http://dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/kaliforn.shtml
VirginMediaPhil
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by DVDfever:
“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.
Moggio
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by VirginMediaPhil:
“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.
DVDfever
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by VirginMediaPhil:
“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.
VirginMediaPhil
24-10-2010
Originally Posted by Moggio:
“These people need to be educated.

And also slapped.”

I object to my parents being slapped.

(I'd probably slap you back!)
DVDfever
04-11-2010
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.
mike65
04-11-2010
Cobra Mission one of a slew of Italian/German action movies from the 80s on Movies For Men is being shown 2.35:1
Bedsit Bob
04-11-2010
Originally Posted by Bspks:
“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.
mike65
04-11-2010
Hard to credit the kind of people who sit watching a distorted version of film/tv.
Kevin1960
07-11-2010
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.
late8
07-11-2010
Originally Posted by Kevin1960:
“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
DVDfever
07-11-2010
Originally Posted by late8:
“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.
late8
07-11-2010
Originally Posted by DVDfever:
“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.
DVDfever
07-11-2010
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.
DVDfever
07-11-2010
Originally Posted by DVDfever:
“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.
DVDfever
09-11-2010
Originally Posted by DVDfever:
“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
pad_ehh
10-11-2010
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?
jzee
10-11-2010
Originally Posted by Paddy C:
“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.
DVDfever
10-11-2010
Originally Posted by jzee:
“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?
pad_ehh
10-11-2010
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!
pad_ehh
11-11-2010
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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