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Question on Lord of the Ring DVD

croxiscroxis I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
In most civilized nations DVD usually have a fullscreen and a wide screen version of the movie on the same disk. I bought the LOTR DVD today and there was only the full screen version. Did I miss the Widescreen version at the store? Did I miss something? I angers me.

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  • DarthkoshDarthkosh Trainee
    Hmm... I think you have to change it to widescreen from your DVD-Player.

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I was not aware there was a fullscreen one. I've only seen the widescreen one here.

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  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [quote]Originally posted by croxis:
    [b]In most civilized nations DVD usually have a fullscreen and a wide screen version of the movie on the same disk. I bought the LOTR DVD today and there was only the full screen version. Did I miss the Widescreen version at the store? Did I miss something? I angers me.[/b][/quote]

    There are seperate Widescreen and Fullscreen versions, This has actually become a lot more common recently, to release 2 seperate DVD's, with wide and full, rather tahn widescreen on one side, and full on the other like they used to do.
  • Drazi GuyDrazi Guy Elite Ranger
    I have only seen a handful of combo full/wide screen releases since I started buying DVDs. Only about 10 percent of my collection has both...
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Men In Black and Terminator 2 are the only two DVDs that I know have it in my 25-something collection. It's sad. More really could use it.
  • Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
    all dvds should ALWAYS be released ONLY in W-I-D-E-S-C-R-E-E-N
  • LightNZLightNZ Ranger
    D-E-F-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    I have yet to get a DVD that had fullscreen on it. All of the one's I've had are widescreen only.

    It would be easy enough to put a 1 byte start number for each screen so that you could digitally switch from wide to full just by stretching the image after cropping based on that start number...I wonder why they don't do that?

    Watching on a 15" computer LCD monitor does limit the view substantially when you are in full screen mode.
  • Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
    [quote]
    It would be easy enough to put a 1 byte start number for each screen so that you could digitally switch from wide to full just by stretching the image after cropping based on that start number...I wonder why they don't do that?
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    Because cropping is not how they achieve widescreen. well ok they due from the 35 mm negative true but not from the Pan And Scan version which would be cropping an image again, most horrible. ever see the hitcher dvd? wrong. If its widescreen in the theater it should be widescreen in the home because thats the way its intended to be seen dammint. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
  • LennierLennier Ranger
    When I went to get the movie at west coast videos, they had an entire wall of LOTR DVDs. Every single one had fullscreen written across the top. When I asked at the desk about widescreen the guy was like, "Uh...no"

    Speaking of the dvd itself has anyone watched the preview for the extended version. There's scenes in there that the fans of the books will love.
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