On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:10:02 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> But my question would have to be... what the hell is so great about
>>> "widescreen" anyway?? Why is it that today everything must be
>>> widescreen? (Except for 99% of all the video you might want to
>>> watch...) Even my friggin' *laptop* is widescreen. WTF?
>>>
>>>
>> Movies. Movies have been widescreen forever. People want to watch the
>> movie "unaltered" at home. That's why.
> 
> Really? I hadn't noticed that one.

It was my understanding that most TVs in the UK these days are widescreen 
anyways; if that's the case, it's not surprising you wouldn't notice the 
difference. :-)

> Is there a reason why movies are filmed this way?

http://www.widescreen.org/aspect_ratios.shtml seems to have some relevant 
information.

Jim

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