[HPFGU-Movie] Harry Potter DVD's In Full Screen Or Wide Screen Format ? ~*~

[Dina Lerret]

Tim said:

> Widescreen over Pan and Scan Fullscreen anyday!!!  You miss some of
> the details in the Fullscreen version.  Just my opinion.

Aye, I'll also agree on preferring widescreen.  After all, that's how we
see the movie in theaters (or at least most).


> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "~SpellBound Gryffindor~"
> <spellbound_hogwarts_gryffindor at y...> wrote:

>> Does the Black Bars cutting off the top and bottom of the picture on
>> the Wide Screen format bother you? Does the Wide Screen picture look
>> too 'stretched out' to you? The Full Screen format fills the
>> whole TV screen and does not have the black bars. But, please tell

As to 'stretched', the black bars don't bother me at all.  If you have a
decent sized TV (at least ~20"), I'd rather have 'smaller' details than
miss out on background details.  I *think* an example was in the Dursley's
kitchen and one of the TVs was cut off in 'fullscreen', so you couldn't
see what they were watching--I know there was some past discussion on the
TV show and its significance [from an FYI POV] in possible time estimates.
 I could be wrong on this since I've never seen an *official* fullscreen
release.

If you're truly a 'completionist' and can afford it, just wait for them to
go on sale/used to have both versions--I waited for HBO to air the HP
movies and recorded fullscreen to video tape.  Heck, you can probably rent
the widescreens to see if you like them before buying.

Dina

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