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Old 09-13-09 | 03:01 PM
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Re: When will Wal Mart and Target drop Fullscreen DVD's?

Leonard Nimoy was pissed about fullscreen over 20 years ago.

Old 09-13-09 | 03:51 PM
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Re: When will Wal Mart and Target drop Fullscreen DVD's?

How many 4x3 TVs are even being made anymore? Are they going to call those "Fullscreen TVs"?
Old 09-13-09 | 04:31 PM
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Re: When will Wal Mart and Target drop Fullscreen DVD's?

Originally Posted by SterlingBen
I just wish I could find a good high quality download of this clip
It's a TCM produced clip, as this version shows in the intro:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5m1-pP1-5K8&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5m1-pP1-5K8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1-pP1-5K8

Maybe you could record it off TCM at some point?

Here's another TCM clip of Scorcese going a bit longer over the letterboxing in Ben Hur:
<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qvl4guTZhXA&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qvl4guTZhXA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvl4guTZhXA

Personally, I feel the clip is incomplete, since it doesn't go into matted widescreen VS open-matte, and thus presents the fallacy that widescreen is better because it always shows more.

Last edited by Jay G.; 09-13-09 at 04:34 PM.

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