Movie picture size

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  1. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Why is it that you buy a big TV and then you watch a film that doesnt even fit the whole screen?
     
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  3. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Also what films really work on a big TV well 26" but I only had a 14" portable all my life, so this is big.
     
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  7. sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    probably watching some old ass movie. Is it a DVD?
     
  8. Genji Registered Senior Member

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    I have only a 27inch screen but I INSIST on widescreen when I buy or rent DVD's.
     
  9. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Its mainly downloaded AVI files, I know I shouldn't moan if its free, but hey

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    I also only got the TV yesterday so have not been able to test out my DVD's but I thought they would be the same. But I might be wrong
     
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    Are the AVIs in widescreen format?
     
  11. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    There are too many formats. Unless your material was recorded in the same format as your screen, it will be either too wide or too narrow. For years we put up with watching cinemascope movies with the edges chopped off because TVs had been standardized sixty years ago in the film format that had been standard forever.

    Then of course they came out with wide-screen movies. Now that we have larger screens (my parents' first TV had an 8" diagonal screen) they shrink the image so we get the entire width and there are blank spaces top and bottom.

    So now they make TVs with cinemascope format screens. And what do they do now? They put videos on the internet that are in the older 35mm format.

    Ready to give up?
     

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