Aspect Ratio Poll
Cropped or stretched to fill the TV screen vs Shown the correct way.
share❌ Cropped or stretched to fill the TV screen
✔️ Shown the correct way
No cropping, stretching, pan-and-scan, time-compression or any other tampering with the format. A film should be shown uncut and displayed as it was intended. I will not purchase any movie that has been altered or edited. The only exception I will make is for Director's Cuts.
“ A film should be shown uncut and displayed as it was intended”
I agree and would like to add (although nothing to do with aspect ratio): no cell phones while watching a “film.”
It would be nice if theaters and restaurants would install cell phone signal jammers. Unfortunately this technology is illegal.
I usually just wait until a movie is released on Blu-ray or DVD. There's no film that I absolutely must see the minute it comes out. I can wait a couple of months if it means being able to watch it at home in peace. The popcorn is cheaper, too.
Are you kidding me? It's perfectly legal to make a cellphone jammer, all you need to do is build a big metal cage in the walls of the theater. The place I work has such a meeting room where you don't get any cellphone reception due to how it was built. Kind of a "we know you want to use them, so we made certain you couldn't."
shareIt's true, it's actually illegal in the U.S. in public places like restaurants. A private company might be an entirely different matter since it isn't frequented by the general public. Reasons given are that it would interfere with police radio and 911 service.
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jamming-cell-phones-and-gps-equipment-against-law
When a movie I start to stream fills the screen I go to IMDB and check the ratio. I also FF pass the opening credits on widescreen movies because sometimes movies will show in widescreen during the credits and then crop to fill the screen afterwards.
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