HP DVDs in wide screen vs full screen

[huntergreen_3]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
>>Is the US population *so* technically and visually uneducated that 
they'd actually be willing to watch this crap? PoA is bad enough, but 
Spider-Man 2 isn't a matter or individual sequences being ruined - 
the whole movie from start to end would be unwatchable.<<

Yes they are. Not the majority by any means (widescreen versions 
always sell better then fullscreen), but there are many, MANY, people 
who have never noticed that a movie-theater screen is a different 
shape than their television screen (I have explained widescreen vs. 
fullscreen to SO many people; its not anything *new*). Personally I 
don't think that fullscreen DVDs should be produced at all. It just 
seems wrong to me. 

On the other hand though, not everyone is a movie buff. I work at a 
video store and over the last few years I've seen the switch from VHS 
to DVD, and its unfortunate that a lot of people are being forced to 
upgrade to DVD (VHS is getting harder and harder to get a hold of) 
when they don't understand the technology, nor do they really want 
to. Suddenly the screen is different and they don't understand why 
(I've even talked to people who think the top and bottom of the movie 
were cut out). 

In any case, widescreen is SO much better, please no one buy a 
fullscreen Harry Potter or any other movie, its not hard to get used 
to, and has a more "cinematic" feel. I have a small TV and that 
doesn't make a difference, I can see it fine. Once you get used to 
it, you'll never want to go back.