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Widescreen (Finally) Winning

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the film-fans-rejoice dept.

Yort writes "There's a little blurb over at the IMDB about customers at Blockbuster now generally preferring the widescreen, or letterbox, format over full-screen. This after Blockbuster tried to only stock full screen versions of movies a few years ago. I guess now the wife will have to let me buy that new widescreen TV, right?"

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  1. Re:How?! by limekiller4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    analog line writes:
    "Well, seeing as Kurosawa shot Seven Samurai AND Rashomon in 1.33:1 aspect ratio, I'd say I can watch it quite easily, as that is the format he used..."

    Thanks go out to you and the six trillion others replies preceeding yours which pointed this out. I can only hope that my error causes ever videophile who reads slash to reply in a similar fashion prior to reading any of them. =)

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    My .02,
    Limekiller