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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted February 20, 2014 01:16 PM

My wife and I were watching "Tales of Terror" on DVD last night, and she noticed a scene and said ...

"Hey, they were using an anamorphic lense to create that special effect" ...

My wife said "Anamorphic lense"!!! Gad, how I love her!!! [Smile]

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 20, 2014 02:45 PM

One time my wife and I were watching a movie on the 'tube.

She commented "This looks squished!"

She was right, and I was impressed!

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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

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Vidar Olavesen
Film God

Posts: 2232
From: Sarpsborg, Norway
Registered: Nov 2012

posted February 20, 2014 04:01 PM

I can't understand why people have 16:9 on 4:3 and think it's okay ... Looks awful and how they not notice, I will never understand :-/

TV's on automatic is awful (come to think of it, TV is awful)

Long live the reels :-)

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008

posted February 21, 2014 01:45 AM

I have the same problem with practically everybody around me,even with my film collector friends, and I don't want to speak about my better half! When I watch tv,I keep changing from one format to the other,according to the picture,and get scolded by everyone for disturbing their viewing because they don't mind !!!! and they don't see any difference !!!!!!!!!!

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Vidar Olavesen
Film God

Posts: 2232
From: Sarpsborg, Norway
Registered: Nov 2012

posted February 21, 2014 02:49 AM

Which is unbelievable ... If they start doing the right thing, they will. My 70 year old mother tells me now, when the picture is wrong (her fault for pressing THAT button), but even she notice now :-)

It can be learneda AND should be

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