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Steven Rogers
Guest
Original poster
I thought we had a comment by Wilt months ago that they would start
capturing movies in the original aspect ratio, but I'm seeing movies
come through that I've never seen on Voom before and they're still
chopped. Maybe these were captured a long time ago - I sure hope so
because its a shame to see the potential of a hi-def movie medium
degraded by a short-sighted approach to digitizing the source material.
With the movies that are originally 4:3 format, I can somewhat
understand the motivation of chopping the top and bottom. People who
don't know any better would call in and say "the sides of the movie on
channel X are black - why am I paying all this money for wide screen
and you're sending me old style TV?" <sigh> I'm sure that would
happen, but I wish they would bite the bullet and do it correctly. Even
for stuff like The Pink Panther or The Three Stooges, its just annoying
to see the tops of their heads cut off, or action go off the bottom of
the picture that you know is supposed to be in the frame.
But when they chop the sides off a cinemascope movie, that's just
unforgivable. I think channels like TCM have shown that people will
generally "get it" if they're just given an opportunity. Heck - just do
like TCM does and run spots in between the movies bragging on how smart
and classy Voom is by capturing movies in the original aspect ratio.
Come on Voom - just do the right thing.
Thanks,
SR
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capturing movies in the original aspect ratio, but I'm seeing movies
come through that I've never seen on Voom before and they're still
chopped. Maybe these were captured a long time ago - I sure hope so
because its a shame to see the potential of a hi-def movie medium
degraded by a short-sighted approach to digitizing the source material.
With the movies that are originally 4:3 format, I can somewhat
understand the motivation of chopping the top and bottom. People who
don't know any better would call in and say "the sides of the movie on
channel X are black - why am I paying all this money for wide screen
and you're sending me old style TV?" <sigh> I'm sure that would
happen, but I wish they would bite the bullet and do it correctly. Even
for stuff like The Pink Panther or The Three Stooges, its just annoying
to see the tops of their heads cut off, or action go off the bottom of
the picture that you know is supposed to be in the frame.
But when they chop the sides off a cinemascope movie, that's just
unforgivable. I think channels like TCM have shown that people will
generally "get it" if they're just given an opportunity. Heck - just do
like TCM does and run spots in between the movies bragging on how smart
and classy Voom is by capturing movies in the original aspect ratio.
Come on Voom - just do the right thing.
Thanks,
SR
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