Poll: Widescreen or Fullscreen?

[shadowstriker86]

So i finnally found something i could watch, a dvd i didnt even know i had, "The Hangover", but it came with 2 formats, widescreen and fullscreen and i always pick widescreen just cause i like that format, but then my brother comes in and says to put it on fullscreen. i told him to piss off and if he doesnt like it, to go get a copy and watch it in the other room. Anyone else have a favorite format?

 

[Miumaru]

Yay, I just love being distracted by two annoying black bars sandwhiching my movie...totally.

Full screen always.

 

[lacktheknack]

I have a widescreen TV, so I don't suffer black bar problems.

 

[rockingnic]

Widescreen, especially for games that have hud elements that could be hidden if in fullscreen.

 

[Omikron009]

Fullscreen, but that's just because I don't have a widescreen TV. It's really quite bothersome that most games and TV shows are in widescreen by default and can't be changed to fullscreen.

 

[Jimmyjames]

Widescreen. Feels like I'm watching a movie and not some made-for-tv BS.

Of course If you have a widescreen set, it doesn't matter as much.

 

[octafish]

Widescreen, that is the way the director saw it, it is the way I want to see it too. My mind boggles at the thought anyone would want to see a badly cropped incomplete vison. I remember seeing a scene in a panned and scanned film where two characters were facing each other talking, neither one was in shot, you just saw their noses every now and then. Ridiculous.

 

[unoleian]

I don't have a true widescreen TV display, I use a computer monitor, and the proportions seem slightly different.

Widescreen, if it adapts to the monitor proportions. A standard theater-proportion film on a widescreen monitor just doesn't work for me. The letterboxes are almost bigger than the film! And full-screening it really stretches it badly.

However, something at 4:3(?) standard ratio stretched to a widescreen monitor ratio generally looks just fine after the first couple of minutes.

 

[Nouw]

No Blackbars. I just really hate black bars

 

[JacobyPAX]

It all depends what sort of screen I have available. If there's a wide screen TV I'll watch in wide screen for the full picture and effect. If I'm using a standard display I need full screen format, because the few bits of peripheral scenery I lose is a small sacrifice for a considerably larger view.

 

[Insane_Foxx]

have to say i agree with PAX.. depends on the screen... if i have wide screen, i'll take that.. if i have normal, i'll go with full screen. But i won't fuss one way or the other

 

[TehCookie]

If I'm going to watch a movie I want to watch the entire movie, not half a movie, with the other half off-screen.

 

[TheLaofKazi]

Assuming I'm not watching the video on a widescreen TV, I would still sort of prefer widescreen... To a degree. I've seen movies especially get a little bit ridiculous with the widescreen, squishing the picture and making it really narrow. But if it's just a slight widescreen effect then it's fine. Games like Battlefield Bad Company 2 have a slight widescreen ratio on them and it actually improves the look of the game. I remember Lost Planet having it too.

 

[Julianking93]

Widescreen. I'm not seeing the full picture if it's in fullscreen.

Kinda odd that they call it the opposite of what you get.

 

[Lust]

If I know what's going on, then, either is fine.

 

[Betancore]

Widescreen, because I have a widescreen TV so I don't get black bars anyway. Not that I mind either way, as long as I get to watch the goddamn thing I'm happy.

 

[krseyffert]

I didn't answer because my TV is 16:9, so widescreen IS fullscreen for me...