Originally posted by: lordjedi
Funny how I still see full screen releases of DVDs. In an age of widescreen tvs and DVD players that can automatically letterbox, full screen should've gone away a long time ago. You have no idea how many times I'm at someones house and they've got the full screen version of a movie because "Oh, I didn't even notice". Ugh! So when they watch it on their widescreen HDTV, the picture looks stretched and distorted instead of the way it should look. It is so annoying!
Funny how I still see full screen releases of DVDs. In an age of widescreen tvs and DVD players that can automatically letterbox, full screen should've gone away a long time ago. You have no idea how many times I'm at someones house and they've got the full screen version of a movie because "Oh, I didn't even notice". Ugh! So when they watch it on their widescreen HDTV, the picture looks stretched and distorted instead of the way it should look. It is so annoying!
I think general ignorance of aspect ratio has remained even though the displays have changed. It used to be that people thought their picture was chopped off on the top and bottom when viewing a widescreen presentation on a 4:3 TV. Nowadays, I can't tell you how often I see people (or businesses) displaying 4:3 images streched out on a 16:9. They have no clue. Hey look! It's widescreen! Yipee!
"Ugh" is right.