Comments on: Incorrect Aspect Ratios: A Huge Pet Peeve

By: Zeb Hodge

Zeb Hodge — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:46:04 +0000

I agree completely! I fear that we are a minority: most people, it seems, don’t care or notice the stretched image. It drives me crazy when the wrong aspect ratio is displayed.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:49:00 +0000

I'm in the same camp as Vince up at comment #12. I have a perfectly functional non-hidef TV and I always buy widescreen DVDs. Nasty, tricksy fullscreen. We hates it.

By: Vince

Vince — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:51:59 +0000

I don’t (yet) have this problem, because I have a perfectly good non-hidef tv that’s only about 3 years old. I always buy widescreen DVDs unless I have no choice (there’s some pretty obscure movies released by specialty houses that only have a fullscreen version).

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:35:54 +0000

I’ve read in the news only recently, that somebody(Phillips maybe) has created a 16×9 only television set.

I don’t want to see Diana Troy headless.

By: William Parmley

William Parmley — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:11:16 +0000

Oh, yeah, and tre audio is 300 msec out of sync, too …

By: William Parmley

William Parmley — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:09:41 +0000

So, you take a dvd, copy the vob file to your hard drive, transcode to mpeg4 with ffmpeg, burn to a dvd with MythVideo, and the aspect ratio is wrong … start over again …

Yes, I know it sounds insane, but …

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:22:20 +0000

Now go rent Star Trek the Next Generation, and watch it like it’s supposed to look. You won’t be sorry.

Won’t be sorry? Depends on which season you rented.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:59:53 +0000

Mom: No, that’s another issue. Very annoying though.

Ryder: Cropping movies is another pet peeve.

Brad: But wouldn’t you notice if your car suddenly took up two lanes…

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:57:27 +0000

Some people get their car washed and detailed every week. I only care if my car gets me home tonight.

If you don’t care about something it’s almost like your brain ignores it even though your paying attention to it.

By: Ryder Step

Ryder Step — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:32:09 +0000

So here is a bit of irony for your morning. Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” was filmed in fullscreen. His reason for doing this was that he filmed “2001 A Space Odyssey” in widescreen, and when it was released to VHS they butchered it and made it fullscreen. So when he went to make The Shining, he filmed it in fullscreen, so nobody would mess it up. Well guess what. The Blu-Ray release of The Shining is WIDESCEREN!. Granted they preserved the aspect ratio, but the cut the top and the bottom off of the entire movie. It changes the whole look and feel of the movie. When I was watching it, I knew it ‘felt’ different, but after popping in my DVD, I realized how terrible it looks.

Way to ruin one of my favorite movies of all time. If Kubrick was alive would be irate, he was a perfectionist in every sense of the word with his movies. Also because of how anal he was with his movies, I doubt he would have allowed this.

As my friend Chuck said concerning this incident “Is nothing sacred anymore?!”

By: MOM

MOM — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:03:57 +0000

hum.. does it make them talk funny too, I mean does there mouth move wrong.

By: me2

me2 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:19:06 +0000

Lol d-rock, my dad is the same. He just bought himself his first wide screen TV 2 weeks ago and I was watching it in the wrong aspect, but I didn’t say anything lest I cop the “I didn’t notice, I don’t care, Now I do, You shit me” spiel. After about 45 mins he says to me, “I think the aspect on this is wrong” to which I replied that yes it was and I showed him how to change it. He went through the diferent aspect ratio, put it back to ‘Stretched’, shrugged and said he was used to it. It’s still set to ‘Stretched’ and I think about kittens when I’m round there

By: d-rock

d-rock — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:28:06 +0000

You know how some folks are color blind? I think some folks are aspect blind. That there’s something wrong with the way their brains interpret the images they are seeing and their brain says, “yup, looks good!” even when we cringe. My dad is like that. He doesn’t even notice when images are distorted. And when I point it out, he gets huffy, “Why’s it such a big deal, I don’t even notice it until you say something about it.”

By: Michelle K

Michelle K — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:26:38 +0000

That hurts my head.

Make it go away.