Letterboxing sucks

All home versions of movies should be in 16x9 or at least have it on the disc too.
Nobody has a TV with cinema proportions.
I didn't buy my 60 inch TV to see a 42 inch picture.

Kill yourself turbopleb

There are like 5 different ratios

Die in a fire

I don't buy a movie to watch half of it.

Pleb.

Fuck off, if it means I can see all of the picture without getting huge bits chopped off (like all those pan and scan movies that used to be broadcast on network TV at Christmas) then I'm fine with it.

Pan and Scan on 4:3 did suck but 16:9 is good enough.

Your the type of person that prefers words to be cut off on the sides of the TV to avoid black bars huh?

Just hit the zoom function on the remote.

Tried this now and it actually works. Thank you.

>i want the sides of my movies cut off so it fills my screen

literal retardation

Nobody puts anything relevant at the edge of the screen.

Extras

Exactly.

Yes we should totally cut the picture of even more movies to make screen fillers happy!

No it's not. A huge chunk of classic movies were filmed with a wide aspect ratio. If anything you should blame TV makers for making 16:9 standard when many classics are even wider.

Source ratio or bust.

Try watching The Hateful Eight again.

I was like you as a kid, OP. I always wondered why my parents bought the widescreen DVDs instead of the fullscreen DVDs.

I learned though. Do some research and you will too.

Considering the relative cheapness of creating LCDs over CRT, why didn't they go with movie industry standards? It just seems like TV broadcasters were being cunts by forcing a non-standard aspect ratio down our throats.

>I havent got a clue about how TV signals are broadcast

There are "HD Rocks" signs at the edge of the screen in my name is earl.

>Not buying an 80 inch TV

Only nerds care about that, I just want my TV to be movie ratio.