do you like your movies full screen or wide screen? - Page 2

***HOBBIT*** · 11-01-2004, 11:33 PM

My local library has a good deal of DVDs to borrow for only $1 each - but 98% of the DVDs are FULL SCREEN. It seems like wide screen was only ordered if it was only available in widescreen, and when it was available in both; the full scren version was chosen.

I emailed a head librarian about this and asked why they only bought full screen dvds...

I got this response:
Hello Tristan,
Thank you for your question regarding the DVDs at the (name deleted, although if you are an entmoot longtimer you should know where i live) Public library. When DVDs were first being added to the collection, some patrons verbally expressed to us that they preferred the Fullscreen version of DVDs because of the black bars present on the Widescreen format.
However, I do agree with your point about "panning and scanning" and have
recently read a few articles on the Internet that also pointed out the
enhanced visual effects of widescreen DVDs.
As such, I'm happy to tell you that widescreen DVDs will be added to the
collection starting immediately.
Thank you,
"name deleted"

cool, so partly in thanks to me they will actually start having a lot of wide screen movies available.

ethuiliel · 11-23-2004, 05:36 PM

I can watch both, neither really bothers me, but when I buy them I usually buy widescreen... it seems more authentic, somehow.

11-01-2004, 11:33 PM	#21
*HOBBIT* Saviour of Entmoot Admiral Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: NC/NJ (no longer Same place as bmilder.) Posts: 61,986	My local library has a good deal of DVDs to borrow for only $1 each - but 98% of the DVDs are FULL SCREEN. It seems like wide screen was only ordered if it was only available in widescreen, and when it was available in both; the full scren version was chosen. I emailed a head librarian about this and asked why they only bought full screen dvds... I got this response: Hello Tristan, Thank you for your question regarding the DVDs at the (name deleted, although if you are an entmoot longtimer you should know where i live) Public library. When DVDs were first being added to the collection, some patrons verbally expressed to us that they preferred the Fullscreen version of DVDs because of the black bars present on the Widescreen format. However, I do agree with your point about "panning and scanning" and have recently read a few articles on the Internet that also pointed out the enhanced visual effects of widescreen DVDs. As such, I'm happy to tell you that widescreen DVDs will be added to the collection starting immediately. Thank you, "name deleted" cool, so partly in thanks to me they will actually start having a lot of wide screen movies available. __________________ President Emeritus (2000-2004) Private message (or email) me if you need any assistance. I am here to help! "I'm up to here with cool, ok? I'm so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis" - Zaphod Beeblebrox Latest Blog Post: Just Quit Facebook? No One Cares!

11-23-2004, 05:36 PM	#22
ethuiliel Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: USA until I find a way to get to Middle Earth Posts: 681	I can watch both, neither really bothers me, but when I buy them I usually buy widescreen... it seems more authentic, somehow. __________________ "...but I love not the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor." "'I would,' said Faramir. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. And many indeed saw them and the light that shone about them as they came down from the walls and went hand in hand to the Houses of Healing."

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