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    Ever distracted by widescreen?

    Lynda-Marie, I do agree that watching 2.35:1 movies on a 27" tv gets quite small and can sometimes even be a bit frustrating (because it's hard to see details or peoples expressions), but it's even more frustrating to know that you're losing a lot of the frame just to get a bigger picture with...
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    Ever distracted by widescreen?

    That's because people are "used to" the curtains being there so they aren't distracting. When people start wathcing WS movies (i.e. those who are used to FF) they can get distracted by the black bars. Just like if someone stood next to your tv and started jumping up and down. You aren't used...
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    Ever distracted by widescreen?

    The problem with the painting analogy is it is a physical thing. The thing with WS movies is, there is more image, yet the image is smaller (on a 4x3 tv). It's this concept that may confuse people. Showing them a large painting and chopping off the sides makes sence because the original (i.e...
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    Ever distracted by widescreen?

    LOL - That was a good one. I don't remember if that was the one, but I do recall there were 2 men in an office. For some reason I believe one was a cop? There were so many bad B&W movies on MST3K that you could name them all and I still wouldn't remember which one it was.
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    Ever distracted by widescreen?

    I wish I could remember the movie, but there was a movie (an old B&W) on Mystery Science Theater 3000 where the P&S process was OBVIOUSLY a hack job where they just left the camera in the middle of the scene and never panned back and forth between the action. There was one scene where the two...
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