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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
I prefer, above all else, Original aspect ratio. Black bars on screens, when they are needed, are great! I find the concept of chopping out parts of movies (usually) so the whole TV screen is filled with light to be asinine. Wide screen or "standard" (4:3 ratio), whichever was made by the original director, don't mutilate it to "fit the screen"!
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Exactly, whatever it was filmed (or Videoed) in is how it should be watched, whether that's Widescreen or 4:3
Generally speaking Feature Films made in or after 1954 were shot in some form of Widescreen.
Some are wider than others and will still be letterboxed even on a 16:9 set, cropping these films or using Pan & Scan to get them to fit a 4:3 screen is truly butchering them.
Letterboxing is the only way to get all the picture on screen, unfortunately if you are watching them Letterboxed on a 27" 4:3 screen the picture is going to be very small.
I've been watching X-files on DVD recently, I was very surprised when I got to season 5 to find out they had been shot in 16:9 (aka 1.78:1), that was around 1997-98 so they were very quick to adopt the format, no doubt figuring it would be more valuable in the future, or possibly so they could incorporate some of the footage into the Movie made in 1998.