disappointed that it is widescreen? I don't know, widescreen allows you to see the movie in the dimensions it was made it...sure, you get those little black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, but you see the whole fram instead of what will fit on the televisions dimensions. The difference, to me, is clearly evident when you watch a fullscreen movie and they do what I call a "freeze pan", which is where the frame pans to right or left to show actions that would have been cut off in full screen, so the frame slides over to show what's going on. I good example of this happens in the fullscreen version fo the terrible Michael Keaton movie "Multiplicity"...I'm not sure about other newer movies, but i have been a widescreen convert for a long time now. I guess either way you look at it, it seems like you are getting cheated
with widescreen, the picture isn't as "tall" but with fullscreen, the picture isn't as "wide", but the difference is that widescreen shows you EVERYTHING whiel full screen only shows you what fits on the screen, then they do those weird freeze pan deals, which really kills the effect for me...I don't know, maybe she wont' be too upset by it...my girlfriends family are big "fullscreen" people, and it doesn't make any sense to me, i figure that its better to see it as it was intended to be seen, but i don't know. When you see the "the following movie has been formatted to fit your tv screen" just means that they've lopped the left and right sides of it off for fullscreen.
