I wish I could find the actual quote, but this is a paraphrase of something from Frank Zappa:

Some people say that hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. I disagree, the most common element in the universe is stupidity.

Gosh, no one in this entire thread has ever brought up that point.

In the words of Robin Williams: "In the dictionary, under 'redundant', it says 'see redundant'."

As pointed out before, there are threads covering this. There are also threads regarding something I personally feel is just as bad. Stretching a 4:3 image to fill the 16:9 screen. How people who claim to want the best picture can then distort it like that is beyone me. I have a toshiba 65" 16:9 RP. I tried stretching when I first got it and couldn't stand it (theater wide 1, where the center is normal and the edges slightly streached.) After reading a thread about it I tried again. After about 15 minutes of it, my 12 year old son asked me to switch it back because "it didn't look right." I agreed.

Perhaps if you are one of these "stretchers" you should consider cutting the pan/scan people some slack? You have your preference, they have theirs. Mine happens to be OAR, whatever that may be, properly displayed.

So when a fullscreen vs. widescreen discussion pops up, should I be all preachy, like those annoying Mormons that go door to door trying to convert people, or should I just not be annoying and let people do what they like?

Just laugh at those who believe in the opposite of what you believe in. That is what I do, I just laugh at those who believe in Fullscreen.

If I'm remembering this right, folks across the pond demanded that the Angel season 2 boxset be released in widescreen even though it originally aired in fullsreen. It works fine, but like the review on this site states, there are some times when there is dead space to either the far right or left of the picture.

To the first poster, that is why he is behind the counter and you're not.

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A few years from now, the same people buying fullscreen will be looking for widescreen when all TVs are 16:9. Then they will take their fullscreen discs back to the store, confused and complaining that "I bought the fullscreen and now those black bars on the side!"

Heh heh heh

Widescreen only for me.

Not like being a video store clerk is really that taxing on the brain...