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[Revlefty]

Sorry, I didn't feel like spending $1,300 CAN on [/b]Blur[/b]-ray...literally LOL just look at their titles...The Fifth Element is a joke...failure to use VC1/Dobly TrueHD...resulting in Extras/Features being cut...!!!

Not to mention the lack of support/releases from ANY Studio and titles/hardware that just keep getting Shuffled/Postposed...!!!

It's not that I like Blu-Ray over HD-DVD...because I hate them both.

 

[tedrjr03]

i just have a question. The people on here with hundreds of dvds, how often do you actually watch them?

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

i just have a question. The people on here with hundreds of dvds, how often do you actually watch them?

Mine keep a fairly regular rotation. I have a few movies that I watch regularly (every week or two), but it's usually one movie every few nights (more on the weekends, during holiday, and between semesters) from the mental list of movies i haven't seen in a while.

 

[SilentPanda]

i just have a question. The people on here with hundreds of dvds, how often do you actually watch them?

Once when I buy them and rarely afterwards... although friends tend to borrow them and when people come over they love choosing something to watch.

 

[clayj]

I'm struggling to understand how anyone can have a 'preferred aspect ratio', such that it has a bearing on which films you're likely to watch.

It's unfathomable to me that you'd choose one film over another on the basis of aspect ratio. Do you find the black bars annoying, or is it just that you want the image to be as big as possible?

Clay does make the distinction between 16:9 and the various other widescreen aspect ratios - he lists some films in 1.66:1, 1.85:1 and 2.35:1. So, clearly, he's not using 16:9 as a generic indicator for all wide aspect ratios.

Actually, I put "16:9" if the DVD is anamorphic widescreen and optimized for my widescreen TVs. I do realize that not all of those movies are filmed in 16:9... even 16:9 DVDs sometimes have letterboxing on them. I like it if they use the OAR, but I also prefer my DVDs be anamorphic widescreen 16:9 (with letterboxing, if the movie demands it).

All of the discs I have down as 1.85:1, 2.35:1, etc. are NON-anamorphic and hence are not optimized for my TVs. These discs will be replaced with anamorphic versions when they become available.

 

[tedrjr03]

yea i was wondering because i know after i watch a movie once i cant watch again for along time, thats why i just rent them

 

[Brize]

Actually, I put "16:9" if the DVD is anamorphic widescreen and optimized for my widescreen TVs. I do realize that not all of those movies are filmed in 16:9... even 16:9 DVDs sometimes have letterboxing on them. I like it if they use the OAR, but I also prefer my DVDs be anamorphic widescreen 16:9 (with letterboxing, if the movie demands it).

How can a 16:9 DVD have letterboxing? If the aspect ratio of a DVD is 16:9 (1.78:1), then it would match the aspect ratio of your widescreen television.

DVDs will only display a letterboxed image if the aspect ratio is wider than 16:9, e.g. 1.85:1, 2.35:1, etc.

 

[MrSmith]

I've never bought a DVD, and probably never will. I can get recently-released movies from the video shop for a fraction of the cost new.

 

[clayj]

How can a 16:9 DVD have letterboxing? If the aspect ratio of a DVD is 16:9 (1.78:1), then it would match the aspect ratio of your widescreen television.

DVDs will only display a letterboxed image if the aspect ratio is wider than 16:9, e.g. 1.85:1, 2.35:1, etc.

An anamorphic widescreen 16:9 is optimized for use on a 16:9 widescreen TV.

Beyond that, they can use whatever letterboxing they want to. (For example, the Star Wars DVDs are optimized for 16:9 TVs, but the movies themselves are a wider aspect ratio. They are letterboxed even on widescreen TVs.)

In my table, when I list a DVD as "16:9", that does not necessarily mean that the movie itself is shot in 16:9. It just means the DVD is optimized for widescreen TVs, which is my #1 concern.

 

[Brize]

An anamorphic widescreen 16:9 is optimized for use on a 16:9 widescreen TV.

Exactly. The 16:9 refers to the aspect ratio of the television, not the film.

Would it not be more appropriate to list the correct aspect ratio and include an extra column to denote an anamorphic image? Alternatively, if the additional resolution afforded by anamorphic DVDs is of primary importance, why not lose the 'Video' column altogether? In its present format, the list conflates aspect ratio and anamorphism.

 

[clayj]

Exactly. The 16:9 refers to the aspect ratio of the television, not the film.

Would it not be more appropriate to list the correct aspect ratio and include an extra column to denote an anamorphic image? Alternatively, if the additional resolution afforded by anamorphic DVDs is of primary importance, why not lose the 'Video' column altogether? In its present format, the list conflates aspect ratio and anamorphism.

I'd still need a column to indicate whether a disc is anamorphic or not. I don't much feel like going through all of those items and changing that value.

Besides, a lot of anamorphic DVDs do not list the actual aspect ratio used by the film content itself, and I'd hate to have incomplete information or to have to look all that stuff up again.

 

[batman123]

there is summit rong with me, i got like 2 times as many...why!!! dear lord why!

 

[iTwitch]

i just have a question. The people on here with hundreds of dvds, how often do you actually watch them?

If I really like a movie I'll watch it 4-5 in a week or two, then it gets shelved. I probably watch 6 movies a week and they're usually recent releases but I do ocassionly pick an oldie, Saturday I watched "War of the Worlds" with Gene Barry.

 

[yoda_four]

Nice collections everyone!

Originals on my Flickr