~*~ Re: Harry Potter DVD's In Full Screen Or Wide Screen Format ? ~*~

[~SpellBound Gryffindor~]

~*~ SpellBound answered:

~*~*~*~ Thank you so much for responding Tim and Dina! :~D ~*~*~*~

I just purchased the Full Screen version of "Harry Potter and the
Prisoner Of Azkaban"... my other HP movie DVD's are also Full Screen.
I order most of my DVD's, CD's, Books and more from http://Amazon.Com

Now that I have heard your replies I am planning on buying the Wide
Screen DVD versions *also* of all HP movies. I cannot purchace them
this month, but I plan to in the very near future. I want all the HP
movie DVD's in both formats/versions ~ Full Screen and Wide Screen.
{I only have Comcast Limited Basic Cable on my TV... no HBO etc.}

Somehow, the Wide Screen DVD movies I have glimpsed seemed too skinny
horizontally and distorted by 'stretchiness', and the top and bottom 
of the picture was cut off {by black bars}... including the tops of
peoples heads. But, that was long ago...it has been a very long time
since I viewed a Wide Screen movie on TV to completion. Something
tells me I should buy *both* DVD formats of the HP movies. The Wide
Screen version has more sweeping landscape scenes and more to view on
the  left and right hand side of the long skinny {lol} picture.

{Tim... what is Pan and Scan? I thought Wide Screen was *panoramic*
due to the picture's horizontal length}
  

*** I am interested in everyone's comments on this topic! :~D ***


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~*~ Tim said:
 
Widescreen over Pan and Scan Fullscreen anyday!!!  You miss some of
the details in the Fullscreen version.  Just my opinion.
 

Dina replied: 

Aye, I'll also agree on preferring widescreen.  After all, that's how
we see the movie in theaters (or at least most).
 
 
~*~ SpellBound asked {excerpt}:
 
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...


~*~ Dina replied:
 
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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