Dave Scarpa

I Am since I replaced my 32" 4:3 set with a 30" 16:9 Samsung last month.Now Widescreen Upstairs and Down ! No More non anamorphic transfers for this Boy,not that I bought them before my conversion mind you. I won't tolerate it now (Listening MGM?) However I still welcome 4:3 if it's OAR. So How Many of you have flushed away the last vestiges of than archaic dying format know as the Square Screen?

My DVD Collection

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Tony Zannikos

I own over 200 dvds , and only 1 of them is fullscreen, cant buy me love, a childhood favorite, not available in oar.

Michael St. Clair

Not me, I still watch tons of vintage 4:3 TV, scads of pre-1960 films, classic cartoons, dozens of 4:3 video games, and a bevy of letterboxed laserdiscs. The only 16:9 sets I find to do this material justice (without a pricy external scaler) are the Pioneers, and at the time I bought my set they were all out of my budget (man have they come down).

Even after I replace my current 4:3 HDTV with a shorter 16:9 set in 2 to 4 years, I'll probably keep a 4:3 set or two around the house.

Should this thread be in the Display Devices area?

David Materazzi

I put my 31" upstairs when I got my Phillips 60" Widescreen Tv this past Christmas. For a very long time I was interested in the Toshiba 65" Widescreen but the price for the 60" was great and also I fell in love with it. Also the guys just barely got that in the house.

Adam_ME

The only MAR DVDs I've got off the top of my head are the region-free Drunken Master II(it's 1.85:1 instead of 2.35:1), Police Academy, and Christmas Vacation(soon to be replaced by a WS version later this year). And at least those last two are open matte.

I don't count discs like Elite's full frame Evil Dead or the Kubrick Collection. I guess you could count Buffy Seasons 4 and 5 in WS since that's technically not the OAR, but let's not go there again.

I should really learn to knock....in case there's a threesome going on in my bedroom. - Sandy Cohen, The O.C., The Countdown

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Paul.Mc

I buy only widescreen DVD's when I can. I've held off on a few titles that are MAR'd, but I'm far from being able to afford a 16:9 TV right now.

Clint B

While I've got a 4:3 TV, I am OAR all the way (which includes some movies where 1.33:1 is the OAR).

David Lambert

OR perhaps in Polls...


I doubt I will ever be a "every TV is widescreen" house until and unless 16x9 TVs are made available in the US in smaller sizes at cheap enough prices. I use various smaller (9"-13") sets in different rooms to hook up various videogame systems (I own 30 of them, dating back to Atari/Intellivision/Coleco) all over the house.

I rarely, if ever, watch TV shows on them (and the smallest TV in the house with a DVD player hooked up to it is 20"...unless you count the 15" PC monitor).

But then I can't claim to be a "Fully WS House" with 5-6 extra 4x3 sets running around, can I?

DAVE/Memphis, TN

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CaptDS9E

If my family replaced every tv in our house with a widescreen we would go bankrupt :-)

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1 WS plasma, 1 WS tube, 1 WS iMac, 1 WS TiBook

2 WS cars, lol