what is the difference between widescreen dvds vs full screen dvds?

Answer 1

Widescreen is like in the theater, so you have black bars at the bottom and top.

Full screen fits your TV, but may clip information on the side, so you get pan and scan

Answer 2

It also has to do with aspect ratio. Widescreen has a ratio of 16:9 and full screen has a ratio of 4:3. A movie screen is typically 16:9. If you compare a scene from a fullscreen and widescreen you will actually seem more of the picture on the widescreen. Fullscreen will crop of a bit from the left and right.

Answer 3

Widescreen dvds you actually see more of the picture. There's always something that full screen can cut out. You can still view a widescreen dvd on a regular tv but it just has a little more to it. I think it has to do with the fact that movies are shot bigger then what a tv screen can normally hold.

Answer 4

Widescreen (also known as letterboxed) preserves the aspect ratio of the film. It's got black bars at the top and bottom of the film and the film is shown as a rectangle like in the theatres.

Full screen edits the shot so that the image fills up the entire screen. Some of the action on the extreme left and right of the shot is cut out.

Answer 5

Ever notice that a movie theater screen is much wider than it is tall? In widescreen, you are seeing the movie exactly how you would see it in a theater. Sinse your TV is more square, Fullsceen only shows about 2/3 of what was actually filmed. Fullscreen is also known as Pan and Scan. The picture, being larger than what is on your TV, is panned and scanned over each frame to show, in your TVs ratio, where the action is taken place.

You are not actually getting black bars on the screen in Widescreen mode....there is just no film in that area to be shown because they essentually have to "zoom out" from the frame to be able to fit the width of the movie frame on a square TV.

Answer 6

Full screen is when the movie (or whatever) playing takes up the "full screen". However, when it is a widescreen DVD, the movie has two black bars on the top and bottum of the screen. Hope I helped!

Answer 7

Hi Make sure your player has USB interface and it can play DIX ultra content too. Try Philips DVP 5996 or 3996 which is the best I have tested even though similar LG/Samsung stuffs exist. TO answer your question, up scaling, up sampling & HD all are distinct terms. In that HD DVD comes with HDMI with upsampling/scaling. Toshiba lost the HD DVD format to SONY BR disc. There is no use in having HD DVD as you don't find HD DVD any more, but you can use upconverting by connecting with HDMI. the image quality is better than a normal DVD connected through component input but inferior than Blue Ray discs

Answer 8

Widescreen, which I hate, has that goofy black line at the bottom and top of the movie you're watching. Full screen uses your full screen like when you are watching normal tv. My husband claims wide screen is made for the new fangled tvs and make you feel like you're at the movies.

Answer 9

Wide screen you see more of the movie. Full screen the sides tend to be cut off but there aren't the blacks lines above & below the picture.

Answer 10

just about every one is right but they aren't telling you why
full screen is edited to fit your television

wide screen shows the directors intended view of the film
and yes there is allot lost in the edit ,a great example is lord of the rings fellow ship of the rings when they enter the mines of moria

in the full screen they they appear to be walking through a built cave but when you see the same scene in wide screen
you get the full impression of how vast and glorious the desolate hall really is, and it does affect the mood conveyed to the watcher