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Widescreen (Finally) Winning
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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that I spent $1000 on a 32" T.V. and only 2/3 of it gets used when I watch a movie.
Flame all you want, but after the first month, approximately 100% of people who watch any movie will be watching it on a T.V., so why the hell wouldn't you design the movie to be seen on that medium?
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security
The most egregious example isn't listed on that site. It's the home movie I made of me raping your mom's asshole. The 2.35 widescreen version is necessary to fit my long cock on the screen. 1.85 may have worked, but the cropped "full frame" version has to have either my balls on the end of my dick (with your mom's bleeding ass) in it. It looks silly when the screen pans back and forth between the two.
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Your mom's dripping cunt looks great projected against my living room wall. I especially like the end of "Butt Blasted Babes from Binghamton" where she let's 9 guys worth of spooge drip out of her anus. In 5.1 it sounds like your swimming in it!
In fact, the only version of the movie Babe [imdb.com] that is available on DVD is pan/scan, so my wife and I won't buy it.
They probably thought that anyone who is old enough to married wouldn't buy that film, and of course kids don't care about aspect ratio's.
Every now and then, a dead end technology pops up, only to disappear in the mists of history.
As long as widescreen isn't filling the entire screen, beacuse it isn't, it will never conquer the home market. For cinemas it's an entirely different thing, of course.
Those who tout widescreen as the next big thing, might be interested in the fact that there is not yet a single consumer widescreen camcoder on the market. Coincidence?
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Smell-O-Vision would be even better. You could smell that hot acress/model's cunt and the captain's sweaty asshole.
it is called letterbox because it looks like an envelope sitting in a box. it is not called letterbox because of something long being inserted into your mom's box. that is called earning her crack money.
Blockbuster edits movies for content and doesn't label their tapes accordingly. The selection sucks at blockbuster and the late fees are onerous.
Use netflix instead: http://www.netflix.com