Widescreen vs. Pan & Scan

http://bit.ly/iBuddy Sydney Pollack explain why you should not use zoom on dvds to get out of the horizontal black stripes

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[Gunde]

Un-fucking-believable that this is still debated in 2009!!

[geekboyII]

It's not about widescreen, or pan & scan. It's about original aspect ratio. Movies should be seen the way the filmmakers intended it to be seen.

[Balikon]

@xboxgamer120120

Because 16:9 is NOT what a theatre-screen is.

[kblixt]

A lot of people still have 4:3 TVs.

[xboxgamer120120]

How about fuck off and just film it in 16:9... that's what the fucking tvs are

[TheRomeerome]

Mr. Pollack was a master director, writer and actor!

[CptSpauIding]

@Nolifereviews careful to not mix up Full-Screen and Pan & Scan

In a movie like the shining or evil dead, the "full screen" version contains actually more information than the widescreen one. And so here it's more complicated to say what version is best.

a "pan & scan" version, on the other hand, is always shitty.

[GavSalkeld]

Great video! Wheres it from?

[psxdriverplayer]

In Finland where I live there's a channel that shows us some movies with the original aspect ratio, but all others usually 4:3 Letterbox or 16.9 Full

[outlawstarr417]

BOY, do i remember the days when we weren't used to widescreen, and we used the Zoom feature alot. "why is this screen so wide? Zoom in! Zoom in!"

ahh, the caveman days.

[soaresdanniel]

@soaresdanniel perhaps one could even take in consideration all that during the filming itself, and for those scenes that would be unacceptable as 4:3, they could make a 4:3 version or have more image up and down, so it would be the widescreen format that would have some image cut out. It wouldn't be the perfect framing perhaps, but at least wouldn't have the weirdness of a widescreen scene and the black borders amidst 4:3 full screen scenes.

[soaresdanniel]

With DVDs and blu rays and whatnot perhaps they could have these days some sort of alternate information track that does a "mapping" for the pan-scan, and, of course, the original director then does the "mapping" of the area to be zoomed in, and panning as he'd find better, perhaps even with some eventual non-full screen scenes if he thinks that a given scene can't afford to miss the whole area.