Originally posted by: vbangle
How's that? Don't you understand that on your widescreen TV the Offical OOT won't be anything like the screen captures in this thread? It's going to be this tiny litttle movie in a sea of black, of course you could zoom in which always looks like shit, but to each his own....
You answered your own question. It is de rigeur to scale letterboxed 4:3 films horizontally and vertically when viewing them on a 16:9 device. The only reason I can think not to would be if the subs got cut off. Scaling both images to the same size most closely reproduces the way owners of widescreen devices will be watching it.
I know this, that the screen caps in this thread of the OOT were not zoomed in on, so if you do this on your own TV it will look worse than it does here....
How's that? Don't you understand that on your widescreen TV the Offical OOT won't be anything like the screen captures in this thread? It's going to be this tiny litttle movie in a sea of black, of course you could zoom in which always looks like shit, but to each his own....
You answered your own question. It is de rigeur to scale letterboxed 4:3 films horizontally and vertically when viewing them on a 16:9 device. The only reason I can think not to would be if the subs got cut off. Scaling both images to the same size most closely reproduces the way owners of widescreen devices will be watching it.
I know this, that the screen caps in this thread of the OOT were not zoomed in on, so if you do this on your own TV it will look worse than it does here....
My own TV* is also much larger than the eight square inches of screen real estate these screen shots occupy, so whether I zoom the image on the TV or not, that's a given.
Oh, and the OOT screen captures were enlarged before they were posted. Look at the size (720x633) and compare that to the size of a properly-displayed 4:3 NTSC DVD frame (640x480).
* Not really mine, but every now and then I get to watch movies on it.