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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.
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~Mike
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>> 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.
Is there a reason why movies are filmed this way?
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> 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.
I'll let you off if you claim you only ever watched movies on TV, where they've
been cropped for decades (until fairly recently) ;-)
> Is there a reason why movies are filmed this way?
The view around you is rarely interesting when looking up and down, but much
more so on the horizontal, especially with a wide field of view. Also, when
people are conversing, moving, fighting etc, they're separated on the
horizontal, not the vertical, so a wide screen lets you show more of the scene
at once... It really all comes down to the fact that we've evolved to live on a
flat 2d surface, our eyes are placed to pan on the horizontal, etc etc.
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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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Warp wrote:
> Disadvantages of CRT:
>
> - Energy consumption and heat production.
I work in a local store, and when walking past the large screen
televisions, which are all LCD or plasma displays, I can feel the heat
rolling off of these things. Even the smaller ones suck down a great
deal of power.
Regards,
John
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Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
> A stretched image bothers me a lot. I just *can't* watch anything if
> the image is stretched. It just looks wrong and annoying. It seems that
> I'm the only person in the world with this problem, though.
>
And me. But I gave up on trying to point this out to friends. They seem
blissfully happy. I've even seen some folks watching widescreen movies that are
'extra'-stretched. I don't even know how that's possible, but they figured out a
way...
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:56:31 -0400, Kenneth wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
>
>> A stretched image bothers me a lot. I just *can't* watch anything if
>> the image is stretched. It just looks wrong and annoying. It seems that
>> I'm the only person in the world with this problem, though.
>>
>>
> And me. But I gave up on trying to point this out to friends. They seem
> blissfully happy. I've even seen some folks watching widescreen movies
> that are 'extra'-stretched. I don't even know how that's possible, but
> they figured out a way...
You take a film shot in 16:9 and project it on a 16:9 screen using a
setup for cinemascope - that'd do it. Black bars at the top and bottom
and a compressed image in the middle. :-)
I managed that one by mistake once in our home theater.
Jim
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>>> 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. :-)
Most *new* TVs are widescreen. (Indeed, it is apparently impossible to
buy one that isn't.) Which is most perplexing, because there are no TV
signals broadcast in widescreen, so owning a widescreen TV instantly
means that everything you watch must either be distorted or have black
bars down the sides. Um... and this is a "good" thing because...??
>> Is there a reason why movies are filmed this way?
>
> http://www.widescreen.org/aspect_ratios.shtml seems to have some relevant
> information.
Only really says what aspect ratios were used and how it was done - not
why these ratios existed in the first place.
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> > 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. :-)
>
> Most *new* TVs are widescreen. (Indeed, it is apparently impossible to
> buy one that isn't.) Which is most perplexing, because there are no TV
> signals broadcast in widescreen,
Um... most channels in the UK broadcast in widescreen, and have done for several
years. Most new shows are now recorded in widescreen too, even the BBC news.
Even prior to this, a widescreen TV could format a letterboxed movie without
distortion to fit the screen.
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>> Most *new* TVs are widescreen. (Indeed, it is apparently impossible to
>> buy one that isn't.) Which is most perplexing, because there are no TV
>> signals broadcast in widescreen,
>
> Um... most channels in the UK broadcast in widescreen, and have done for several
> years. Most new shows are now recorded in widescreen too, even the BBC news.
Interesting. Everything I see on TV is still in 4:3 aspect.
> Even prior to this, a widescreen TV could format a letterboxed movie without
> distortion to fit the screen.
Sure, but nobody does this except for films. Normal TV programs are
still in 4:3 aspect.
Now that my mum has a widescreen TV, this means that I can either have
people with elliptical heads, huge black bars, or cut off half the
picture. I opted for cutting off half the picture. (Which means that if
they show something that *is* widescreen letterboxed, it comes out
right. Except that, apparently, even "widescreen" films aren't actually
16:9 aspect, so you still get letterboxing...)
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