Robert Floto
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Jul 27, 1999
- Messages
- 739
Yesterday I popped into a local SavOn Drugstore to pick up a lottery ticket (Nope, didn't win) and as I was leaving I overheard an older woman asking a clerk about the difference between full screen and widescreen on the copies of The Two Towers they were selling.
The clerk (who reminded me of the squeaky-voiced teenager on The Simpsons) said to her (in almost these exact words), "The full screen version is squarish like most TVs, but the widescreen version is more panoramic like a wide movie screen. So it presents the entire picture as the director intended."
I was quite impressed that this kid was speaking my language, but even more impressed when the lady said back to him, "Then I see more with the widescreen version?" And he replied, "Yes, Maam." So she purchased the widescreen copy!
I just left this drugstore (a place I would never in a million years think of buying a DVD at) with a smile on my face thinking that perhaps our saving grace in the war between Pan & Scam and Widescreen will be younger people who actually DO get it...
The clerk (who reminded me of the squeaky-voiced teenager on The Simpsons) said to her (in almost these exact words), "The full screen version is squarish like most TVs, but the widescreen version is more panoramic like a wide movie screen. So it presents the entire picture as the director intended."
I was quite impressed that this kid was speaking my language, but even more impressed when the lady said back to him, "Then I see more with the widescreen version?" And he replied, "Yes, Maam." So she purchased the widescreen copy!
I just left this drugstore (a place I would never in a million years think of buying a DVD at) with a smile on my face thinking that perhaps our saving grace in the war between Pan & Scam and Widescreen will be younger people who actually DO get it...