Sunday, January 8, 2012

Take your choice: one chariot or two.

People do odd things. And one of the oddest is what millions of people do: watch wide-screen movies that "have been modified to fit your tv". I can't understand how anyone can enjoy watching a film like Ben-Hur or Dr. Zhivago knowing that a third or more of the picture is missing because the station didn't run it in letterbox and instead used the method known as pan and scan. Even more amazing is being told that there are lots of viewers who don't even know what letterbox is and complain that the top and bottom of the picture is missing. Is that really possible? Are people that stupid? And why would such people even watch classic wide-screen films. Especially annoying is when you pay Comcast to see a film and they run it in an edited version. It's not worth watchilng. But you still have to pay. They should at least list it as truncated or more accurately "butchered". So once again Turner Classic Movies remains the only network that respects movies and its viewers since they never interrupt with commercials and never "adjust" their films.

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