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Old 11-23-05, 07:36 PM   #13 (permalink)
anthro
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Originally Posted by axzilla
I never liked the widescreen format you dont get a full picture you always are looking at people with half their head chopped off I like fullscreen with a full picture
Actually it is fullscreen that does the chopping on movies. See the example with on this page with a normal movie (widescreen) butchered into fullscreen - you lose so much of the image, up to 45%. http://www.widescreen.org/widescreen.shtml

Nothing drives me more insane than fullscreen movies. 16:9 makes so much more sense - the human eye sees more horizontally than vertically naturally. I am really glad to see the movement towards widescreen TVs/projectors/monitors. Even though the Axim screen is not natively 16:9 all movies stay original when I watch....but for personal viewing, movies are ultimately better on a 100ft widescreen projector, but you can't cram one of those in your pocket!
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