Widescreen x Fullscreen

I remember a long time ago, a friend of mine called Ademar arguing in favor of widescreen video playback. He sent to me a lot of links with irrefutable proofs of widescreen superiority. After this I became a widescreen-fanboy as well.

When I was a SKY (a Brazilian company of cable TV) subscriber, I was used to watch Lost in AXN channel, but when I saw some episodes previews in the Internet, I just figured out that AXN/Sky transmission of  Lost is fullscreen. My TV was doing zoom in the image, so it always looked to me like a 16:9 transmission (shame on me, at this time I didn’t care about image quality and TV setup like nowadays).

Now and after I must wait to buy a whole Lost season in stores. Here are some pictures of how the same Lost footage looks in my TV from AXN Brazil (fullscreen) and CTV Canada (widescreen) broadcast.

"Fullscreen sucks" - as said by my friend Ademar

"Fullscreen sucks" - as said by my friend Ademar

Now you can see the "extra actor" on the left

Now you can see the "extra actor" on the left

Posted on April 14, 2009 at 12:55 by Thiago · Permalink
In: en, nerd, pt_br · Tagged with: , , ,

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  1. Written by Ademar Reis
    on April 14, 2009 at 12:58
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    How can you get the signal from CTV Canada (with pt_BR subtitles!) in Brazil?

    /me runs ;-)

  2. Written by Thiago
    on April 14, 2009 at 13:22
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    Hummm… Photoshop? :)

    • Written by Hermeson
      on May 22, 2012 at 22:24
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      Just brought an iPad 2, tnkhas to doing to much overtime recently, and a new background appears as if my magic. Just what I needed.If anyone out here hasn’t seem Rampant Mac on an iPad sneak into your nearest reseller and have a play, its like it’s own little app. One little issue is that that the images don’t appear on the front page’ (except for Lennart’s tutorial ?!?). a WP bug perhaps ? Lennart’s guide is the only post on the front page with multiple images and it seems to show the last one.

  3. Written by romelo
    on April 14, 2009 at 13:41
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    New member at blogsphere! Congrats, friend.. I’ll be always around..

  4. Written by Tomaz
    on April 14, 2009 at 19:01
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    What about starting your twitter now?! :D

  5. Written by Jorge Pereira
    on April 26, 2009 at 14:38
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    Eu acompanho “on the fly” Lost baixando os videos através do torrent, existe versões dos videos em 720p com qualidade bem superior!

    Porém realmente e bem melhor assistir em DVD, so que não consigo esperar tanto tempo! :)

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