I don't know if this was ever mentioned on the post, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Whenever you watch a movie or tv show that you like, do you prefer watching it the way that it was intended.
Example: If it was filmed in Letterbox would you watch it in that format or Pan & Scanned?
TV series and anime can count too since the majority of them today are shot in Letterbox now.
Note: films made in the early days such as the 20s, 30s, 40s & mid-50s don't count since they filmed in pan & scan.

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Last edited by Aurontsubaki on Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:08 am, edited 1 time in total.

Letterbox please! Honestly, I can't stand to watch things in Pan & Scan. It drives me up a wall spending a whole movie trying to figure out what I might be missing in that 30% (or somewhere thereabouts) they lopped off in order to make it "formatted to fit your screen". Give it to me straight, Doc.

Not to mention that when my family gets together to sit down and watch a movie at night with the lights all turned out, Letterbox format really gives it a more movie theater quality that Pan & Scan ever could. If I'm paying $4.99 for a movie OnDemand, I'd better be getting the whole movie.

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I agree with you, a fortiori, Some people think that Letterboxing is shrinking up the picture itself. I didn't know much about the Widescreen Format until I saw this intriging segment about it on Turner Classic Movies being explained professionally by Curtis Hanson, Michael Mann, Sydney Pollack & Martin Scorsese. After seeing it, I realized that this is what the filmmakers shot it in, zooming it and Pan & Scanning is violating the art form, it ain't giving all the information you needed for that film. I guess that is why they decided to make DVD (thank goodness) & Widescreen tvs now so alot of people don't have to worry about the top and bottom bars on the screen.

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