/tmp/santos » lost http://www.tmpsantos.com.br Thiago Marcos P. Santos Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:17:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Widescreen x Fullscreen http://www.tmpsantos.com.br/en/2009/04/widescreen-x-fullscreen/ http://www.tmpsantos.com.br/en/2009/04/widescreen-x-fullscreen/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:55:06 +0000 Thiago http://www.tmpsantos.com.br/?p=26 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

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