Widescreen. For the same reason, you get the whole picture. Although a couple family members I can think of prefer fullscreen because they say looking at those black bars hurts their eyes. Whether thatās true I dont know. Never bothered me any.
Definitely Wide Screen.
Widescreen, most definitely. I can tell you right now that the fullscreen version sucks, because Iāve seen it for myself on tvā¦ 
ā Mitch
Iāve tried many times to explain to my mum the difference between fullscreen and widescreen, but she still says āBut then youāve got the black bars at the topā and Iām like face palm
And Iām glad no one has yet voted for fullscreen. Good to know Brad Birdās message is getting through. 
I think the black bars may make her āfeelā that something is missing because the movie doesnāt fill the TV up. But in fullscreen, they cut the sides of the movie (nooooā¦ 
) to make it somewhat square-like, then they expand that square piece to fill up the TV, making some watchers āfeelā like the movie is more complete (though itās surely not).
A lot of people like fullscreen, maybe thatās their preference, canāt blame them. Anyway, I prefer widescreen, the original one. Well, for us Pixar fans, weād prefer to see the āwholeā Pixar movies, right? 
WIDESCREEN FOREVER!!! 
I donāt know why they just donāt do what they did for one of the Finding Nemo DVDs: Extend the image both horizontally and vertically. It makes more sense and would suit everyoneās tastes.
It actually took me a while to get used to widescreen, since I was brought up on fullscreen as a kid. Now, of course, I realize the benefits of widescreen.
ā Mitch
Sorry Mitch. I donāt understand what you meant by extend the image both horizontally and vertically. (Do you mean itās out of proportion or is it the original proportion but only compatible with widescreen TVs or something else?) Can you please explain it again? [thanks 
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Definately Widescreen!
I even prefer 2:35:1 over 1:85:1! I have a widescreen LCD tv, so those small black bars wonāt bother me.
But if you have a full screen, movies in 2:35:1 have larger black bars than movie! Itās 2008 widescreen is the new way 
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Well, Iām curious, My Pixar Movies from The Incredibles onwards are Widescreen.
But Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc. and Toy Story 2, fall under these ratios
Finding Nemo ā> 1.78:1
Monsters Inc.ā> 1.85:1
Toy Story 2ā> 1.78:1
Iām just curious because these movies of mine fill up the entire screen with image and Iām afraid if it was cutted or something.
I really like to thank Brad Bird for orienting me on comparing Widescreen and Fullscreen version of movies when I watched my DVD copy of The Incredibles.
JhOpZzZz - These are the original aspect ratioās. They are widescreen.
1.78:1 and 1.85:1 are called widescreen. 2.35:1 and 2.39:1 are called cinescope. Cinespoce is extra wide, made for the white screen. So with these movies youāll get black bars, even on a widescreen tv.
Wow. Thanks, christvs, thatās really informative.
Thank you sir! There Will Be Blood, anyone?
Thanks for the info. So in short, My Pixar DVDs from The Incredibles onwards are Cinescope. I can really see the full scope of one of my most loved scene in the movie.
Remy and his wild and deadly ride on the sewers.
Once i relized how much fullscreen actually cut off, i went with widescreen. but before hand id always go with full because the black edges would bug me if i noticed it lol.
It makes me wonder how large of a screenshot the animators makeā¦ because im sure its even larger than what is shown on wide screen.
90% of my DVD collection is widescreen, which is much more preferable!
Ever since the advent of the DVD format, Iāve always refused to watch something unless it was in its Original Aspect Ratio. Yeah, for many things thatās gonna be widescreenā¦ and clearly that better suits modern televisions. However if Iām going to sit down and watch some Lost in Space or Brady Bunch on DVD, itās sure as heck going to be in fullscreenā¦ and having your TV/player stretch it out to fill the 16x9 frame doesnāt count as proper.
One of my biggest pet peeves is people who sit back, watching a $2000+ HDTV with a distorted image; and somehow delude themselves into thinking theyāre getting great quality 'cuz somehow blowing a ton of money on a TV is enough.
I was perfectly willing to tolerate the letterboxing on my 4x3 TV back when I started buying DVDs, and similarly Iām now willing to tolerate pillarboxing on my 16x9 displays when watching material that was originally 4x3. Thereās a massive archive of 4x3 contentā¦ the vast back catalogue of television programsā¦ many classic filmsā¦ etc.
So weād better get used to some pillarboxing, IMO.
Donāt know the difference between two.
can any one please elaborate.
I like widescreen better, it looks better that way.
I dare anybody who prefers fullscreen to do this:
- Take a screencap from a widescreen movie
- Open said screencap in the image editing program of your choice.
- Crop the image to 4:3 ratio keeping as much important detail as you can: A little bit wider than a square, but not much. When you crop it, do NOT include any of the black bars.
You may notice that you have trouble getting a good āshotā so to speak, or that you can get the main characters, but you lose important background details or secondary characters. When you opt for fullscreen format, you are watching an entire film built on this exercise.
As soon as I started making icons, I stopped watching fullscreen. In fact, Iām going to work on an example right now.