4x3 or not 4x3 that is the Question

[KnightWarrior]

I hate Full Screen Movies, When I look for DVD's online or in the wild, I look for the Widescreen

[crazydean]

idiots/customers

Love it.


I don't know if stretching to fit is really any worse than playing 8/16 bit games on 70" 4K. They both look like shit.

[Gredler]

idiots/customers

Love it.


I don't know if stretching to fit is really any worse than playing 8/16 bit games on 70" 4K. They both look like shit.

Agreed, pixel aspect ratio is blown to shit by the tv upscalers anyways

[SignOfZeta]

Original aspect ratio only. The idea that anyone would somehow be unable to ignore matting but at the same time not care that the entirety of their image is warped like a funhouse mirror is nuts. Those same people usually have motion smoothing and edge enhancement cranked to the max with nova bright colors. Nauseating.

If you actively prefer anything else, that's fine, run your own gear however you want, but do know that you are an idiot.

[jtucci31]

Oh man, the number of pictures I've seen of people playing in some terribly stretched format on a giant HDTV on facebook is crazy. I try to comment as often as possible and make known how it hurts the eyes when they post stuff like that.

[MrBroadway]

Oh man, the number of pictures I've seen of people playing in some terribly stretched format on a giant HDTV on facebook is crazy. I try to comment as often as possible and make known how it hurts the eyes when they post stuff like that.

Just tell them they look like nincompoops when they play like that. That'll teach em!

(Half serious.)

[SephirothTNH]

Working at a couple different stores which sold videos during the late 90's, whenever idiots/customers would say they wanted full frame because "I don't want part of the picture cut off", I'd explain that only full frame versions cut anything off and how proper widescreen versions were the only way to see the "full" picture.

When they'd say something about how they didn't want bars "cutting off" the top and bottom of the screen, I'd point out that in "full frame", the sides of your TV screen are vertical bars which actually are cutting off the picture.

I don't think I ever convinced anyone with that mentality not to buy the cropped version. They'd often say that I don't get it, even if I'd already said that I understood that all that they may be concerned about is having the picture zoomed in so that it appears as big as possible.

Having also worked in a similar store I can attest that idiots/customers kept the same mentality in the early to mid 00s.

What's even worse is that some of these customers still begged for Pan and Scan copies to play on their widescreen TVs since they could stretch them to fill the whole screen instead of seeing a little bit of black bars on the top and bottom for films over 1.78:1. 

[wilykat]

I wish I had to room to keep my LCD TV and decent sized CRT TV. All I got for CRT is a 13" Commodore monitor with RGB/SVideo/Composite input and shitty sounding mono sound.

For older games, I do have my TV switch to 4:3.  It's the nicier model that remembers the mode setting so it goes back to 16:9 with DVD and BD player and OTA signals.

[KnightWarrior]

I think people still formatting 4x3 stretching it to 16x9 on YouTube

I can't stop people from doing it, I sure can vent at them, But they get mad -- I don't really care

[Elder]

At home I use a combination of pure CRT goodness, and XRGB-mini if I have friends over that want to use the large screen TV.  It's just more practical that way, however no stretching involved in either case.  Even when I make vids for YouTube, I run the XRGB signal directly to my capture card and voila, HD 4:3 goodness. 

[Joe Redifer]

4:3 for 4:3 games. 16:9 for 16:9 games. 16:9 monitor, stretched image laying flat down on a table for TATE games with the spoken word "TATE" being said through loudspeakers in the room (rhyming with "Kate") every 6 seconds is the only way to play those games.

EDIT: Off topic, but the Framemeister pisses me off with the amount of visual noise the scaler causes in some (actually, many) solid colors.

[MrBroadway]

If you're game is 16:9, you're not OBEYing enough!

[Dicer]

4:3 for 4:3 games. 16:9 for 16:9 games. 16:9 monitor, stretched image laying flat down on a table for TATE games with the spoken word "TATE" being said through loudspeakers in the room (rhyming with "Kate") every 6 seconds is the only way to play those games.

EDIT: Off topic, but the Framemeister pisses me off with the amount of visual noise the scaler causes in some (actually, many) solid colors.

Tah-Tae, that's how I roll...

[esteban]

TAE. TEE.

[GohanX]

Tittee?