MM DVDs Screen Format

[Guest Second Coming]

i don't like widescreen, i have (or my mum has, rather) a normal square tv, and I find it really distracting when you're watching just a section of the screen.  I do find that I can get used to it after 15 mins or so sometimes.  Depends on how squished up it is.

the thing is, on widescreen it's NOT squished. It's in the original way it was intended to be. In Full Frame they cut out part of the screen to fit it on the tv.

[Guest se7en]

the thing is, on widescreen it's NOT squished. It's in the original way it was intended to be. In Full Frame they cut out part of the screen to fit it on the tv.

.......IF I HAD TO GO BACK TO 4:3-SQUARE I'D BE DOING IT KICKING AND SCREAMING THE ENTIRE WAY    

                              se7en  

[Guest Pretender909]

They are releasing Kunf Fu next year on DVD and it will be widescreen, but since it wasn't filmed that way, they say they'll have to trim a little off the top. I love widescreen, but I don't want my TV/Movies trimmed. Todd

[Guest A Stranger]

Why would anyone not want widescreen if that is how they were filmed?

[Guest Second Coming]

Funny article on The Onion about FULLSCREEN format:

https://www.theonion.com/3949/news3.html

[Guest se7en]

Why would anyone not want widescreen if that is how they were filmed?

.....ANOTHER GOOD QUESTION IS "WHY WOULD ANYONE RELEASE SOMETHING IN WIDESCREEN WHEN IT WAS NOT SHOT THAT WAY??" i've seen the results of a few show like that and results are often a VERY grainy picture;not pretty. A.K.A. RIDICULOUS!

~se7en

[The Old Man]

Good point indeed.

Graham.

[voidprime]

Babylon 5 is a mixed bag in widescreen. It was shot in the widescreen, but the CGI shots in space weren't done in widescreen, and all the computers that contained the data (and the original data) to do the CGI to configure to widescreen was lost by the time Sci-Fi aired it in widescreen (and Warner put B5 on DVD).

Be Seeing You,

David Blackwell

[Guest JRC]

Babylon 5 is a mixed bag in widescreen.  It was shot in the widescreen, but the CGI shots in space weren't done in widescreen, and all the computers that contained the data (and the original data) to do the CGI to configure to widescreen was lost by the time Sci-Fi aired it in widescreen (and Warner put B5 on DVD).

Be Seeing You,

David Blackwell

My vote: However it was shot. :)

[Guest Regan MacNeil]

I'm pretty sure the first season of MillenniuM will be full screen. MillenniuM paralleled The X-Files seasons 4, 5, and 6 (remember The X-Files crossover didn't happen until season 7) and The X-Files didn't switch to widescreen until season 5. I HOPE I'm wrong, but I'll bet MM didn't switch to widescreen until the second season.