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  1. Colin Jacobson

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

    The same. My OLED shows a small "black box" top/bottom but nothing notable.
  2. Colin Jacobson

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

    Yeah, there's been some perplexing revisionist history here - like "everyone hated letterboxing".
  3. Colin Jacobson

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

    Someone who will remain nameless gave me crap because I referred to IMAX 1.43:1 as IMAX 1.44:1 - or vice versa. Can't remember. But he argued that I declared the wrong ratio over that .01:1! :unsure:
  4. Colin Jacobson

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

    My subconscious realization about how much was lost to 1.33:1 cropping came with "Jaws", "Die Hard" and "CE3K". As much as I liked them theatrically, their 1.33:1 VHS versions left me uninspired. When I got 2.35:1 LDs, I loved them again. Nothing that I could point at and say that I...
  5. Colin Jacobson

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

    But my point is that Ron claimed everyone hated letterboxing on 4X3 TVs, so no, both things can't be true. If you wanna claim that I hated letterboxing until 2008 when I got a 16X9 TV, go for it. But you'll be wrong. I loved letterboxing from the minute I got a laserdisc player in 1991. I...
  6. Colin Jacobson

    Watching movies letterbox/wrong aspect ratios.

    Uh, no. I got into LDs back in 1991 because of letterboxing. Even on a 15" tube TV, I was excited to see movies OAR. Surprised by this statement because HTF has always advocated OAR and "widescreen TVs" weren't the norm until the site had been around for a good chunk of years.
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