The pan and scan method (which allows for widescreen formats on full screen) ends up changing the director’s view of the film dramatically. Sometimes, the changes are so much that the full screen version ends up being a completely different film based on what you can see on screen at once. [via]
What happens when you format a widescreen film for full screen televisions
August 31, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
Kindle DX not big enough? Try the Kindle DXXX!
May 7, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
? Then you might be interested in the new and improved super-large Kindle DXXX. It’s so big that you can read the Amazon.com website on it. Thanks Widescreen Tetris
March 11, 2009 @ 11:50 am
How do you turn Tetris, one of the most addictive games in the world, into an unplayable mess?
You expand the gameplay area and make the pieces smaller than normal. The result is what’s being dubbed “Tetris HD” and it’s absolutely absurd. This may be the first game I can remember playing where my goal was to lose. And even at that, I failed. Because after only a few minutes, I gave up and closed the window, hoping to never open that game ever again.
YouTube goes widescreen
November 25, 2008 @ 10:08 am
If you’re watching a video on YouTube today, you’ll notice that the viewing area of the page has been expanded and the video player itself has switched to a widescreen format.
I felt like I had something more profound to say about the change, but I don’t. And now I’ve created this entry and I don’t want it to go to waste.
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