Whats the difference, and which one is better? i personally prefer the fullscreen.
Widescreen is better (more picture), but if you’re viewing on a 13-inch or smaller screen, you might as well go full-screen as to save on the eyestrain.
Fullscreen. Widescreen viewing is beyond annoying.
As mentioned already, the widescreen format preserves the picture, and I always prefer it over the fullscreen format.
If I’m going to pay fifteen to thirty bucks for a DVD, I’ll want to get the whole picture on the screen, thankyouverymuch.
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I prefer widescreen. Here’s why. I have a 16:9 bigscreen TV, and the letterbox effect is minimized.
I prefer widescreen. (interesting typo I edited, wifescreen. I wonder what that is?) I hate hate hate [/Kefka] all those quick pans and back to back shots they use to make widescreen into full screen. And the amount of film makers who go to the trouble to film it so that it can be either widescreen or fullscreen is going to remain in the single digits.
I can’t wait untill fullscreen becomes a misnomer and people complain about those nasty black bars on the sides of their screens. Although for myself I’m not exactly sure why people complain about black bars for widescreens on standard format TVs, especially since my TV is black and black bars already frame it anyway.
We should toss the word fullscreen out already. Call it the old standard since that’s what it is anyway.
I went along to a store and viewed both options side-by-side, which I’d recommend. The newsreader had very weird buffalo-wide shoulders with widescreen (and a somewhat square head), but you didn’t notice it so much if you just concentrated on that screen - it became oddly ‘normal’ in short time. But, ultimately, it was still odd.
The way it was explained to me; widescreen is only really valid for widescreen format films/movies, otherwise you either choose the black bars or buffalo shoulders. YMMV.
Of course, it’s also a marketing ploy.
I didn’t buy either option. Radio is okay for now.
I like widescreen, but I can watch fullscreen without a problem shrug I’ve never really given much thought as to one being better.
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Widescreen is better. I don’t like having a third of the movie frame chopped off, or suffering bad back and forth editing.
Wide shoulders is only if you stretch the fullscreen image to fill a widescreen TV. Though that has certain benefits (it doesn’t burn a vertical black bars of emptiness into your screen) it isn’t really recommended. Ideally TV will adapt to widescreen themselves (and many channels and TV shows do) so that burn-in doesn’t happen, and the new standard is widescreen.
If you’re looking for DVD movies, buy widescreen. If you’re looking for a new TV, buy widescreen. In five years everything will be widescreen anyway, so you may as well get used to it sooner rather than later.
There is absolutely no excuse for purchasing a “full” screen DVD. If your television is so small that viewing the movie in the proper aspect ratio is annoying, get a bigger television. I mean, really, where are your priorities, people?!
Fullscreen Pan and Scan (aka Pan and Cram) is a tool of the devil himself!
Watch your movies the way the director meant for them to be seen!
I didn’t spend several grand on a 55" widescreen TV to watch movies in #!^!@?$^%&!#@ pan-n-scan fullscreen crap. 
Widescreen. How anyone can handle watching fullscreen, let alone prefer it, is beyond me.
I’m with you. I cannot stand fullscreen. Even before I got my 16x9 HDTV, I only bought widescreen (anamorphic) DVDs. The black bars never bothered me, but knowing that I wasn’t seeing the whole movie certainly did!
All you have to do is watch ‘Ghostbusters’ once in fullscreen to be converted to the one true movie type.
Of course, you have to be able to watch the movie without getting all queasy from the scanning back and forth (blech).
Wiiiiidescreen is my preference.
My preference is whatever the original source was intended to be. For most movies, that is widescreen, and the black bars on a standard size screen don’t bother me at all. For IMAX DVDs, it is fullscreen. With made-for-TV content, it is fullscreen.
I HATE the stretching that many use on widescreen TVs to display 4:3 content. Yuck.
For my video (cable, satellite, DVD, VHS, and VGA) viewing, I watch an 80" screen. The picture is projected from an Infocus X1, for less than a grand. And no burn-in worries.