Thats what I think. I disagree with the puritists on the forum that wants everything to be released in the original format. I recently bought Flåklypa Grand Prix from 1975 on dvd. They decided to release it in the format of the future, widescreen. They used some excellent techniques to show the whole picture. They kinda rolled the pic from top to bottom which worked great. You dont have to cut off anyones had or anything.
Noone will care about these 4:3 releases in the future, except hardcore Queenfans, and puritists, which are few in numbers.
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It's far from a big mistake. I can't personally think of many bands that have released old footage on DVD, and butchered it for widescreen. About 99% of DVD releases of old footage are in their original aspect ratio, but QP fucked it up. If it wasn't filmed in widescreen, it shouldn't be released in widescreen. The whole concept of widescreen being used for new DVD's and TV, is to force the consumer to purchase a new TV set anyway.
The "We Will Rock You" concert are released in Widescreen. And I assume that the original picture was 4:3? I havent checked this, so correct me if I am wrong.
I believe the We Will Rock You 81 concert was shot on film as it was originally filmed to be shown at theatres. Furthermore it is not a Queen Productions DVD.
Okay, just going off the two Queen releases that are on my desk at the moment...
What an idiotic thing to say. 4:3 a big mistake?
THINK, MCFLY. If something is shot in 4:3, it must be released as 4:3. Live at Wembley? Shot with TV cameras - to put that in 16:9 or whatever would crop part of the image, or make Freddie look like a fucking porker.
I wanted to SHOOT someone when I got GVHII and half the videos were squished. And the cover proudly boasted it was all in 16:9...
Hairy balls to THAT I say. What a fucking jip.
4:3 a mistake???
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What an idiotic thing to say. 4:3 a big mistake?
THINK, MCFLY. If something is shot in 4:3, it must be released as 4:3. Live at Wembley? Shot with TV cameras - to put that in 16:9 or whatever would crop part of the image, or make Freddie look like a fucking porker.
I wanted to SHOOT someone when I got GVHII and half the videos were squished. And the cover proudly boasted it was all in 16:9...
Hairy balls to THAT I say. What a fucking jip.
4:3 a mistake???
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6404/whagz2.jpg
When you have to cut things off, you're not giving all you got. so indeed.. what is filmed in 4:3 must stay this way. Besides, most widescreen televisions have a button on their remote to fake 16:9 from 4:3 (without stretching). So in any case there is no reason to start butchering archive material which fans have been waiting for.
Cropping the videos from their original 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen version is not a big mistake. Far from it...
IT'S A BIG, HUGE FUCK UP!!!
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IT'S A BIG, HUGE FUCK UP!!!
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Some of the results looking amazingly bad.
A Kind of Magic and Radio Ga Ga spring to mind.
A Kind of Magic and Radio Ga Ga spring to mind.
What really fucking pissed me off, was that it's basically irreversible for most TVs. It's easy enough to press 16:9 mode, or 4:3 mode, but there's no option for what the GHII DVD has... which is, I dunno... 'correct the retarded reformatting' mode.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Dane wrote: [/QUOTENAME]When you have to cut things off, you're not giving all you got. so indeed.. what is filmed in 4:3 must stay this way. Besides, most widescreen televisions have a button on their remote to fake 16:9 from 4:3 (without stretching). So in any case there is no reason to start butchering archive material which fans have been waiting for.[/QUOTE]
Couldn't say it better. Brilliant.
Couldn't say it better. Brilliant.
Furthermore, what about the video directors? If they originally framed without mattes, then the planned 4:3 aspect ratio should be mantained. I rather have wasted space in my widescreen TV/monitor to suffer the losing of 25% of the frame as intended by the director.
Not to mention annoying things like Freddie's hand crossing while playing Bohemian Rhapsody getting chopped in the GVH DVD clip. One of the trademarks of the video is no more just because some idiot though it would be nice to automatically see things a little bigger on widescreen devices. I hated that one - it sucks bigtime.
I have a great idea.
Most new picture frames are 16.9 landscape.
Why don't we cut the portrait of the Mona Lisa canvas to fit one of these too?
Most new picture frames are 16.9 landscape.
Why don't we cut the portrait of the Mona Lisa canvas to fit one of these too?
Yeah, art at the service of technology...
While 'Humans' think like that, the 'Machines' have won already.
While 'Humans' think like that, the 'Machines' have won already.
Who cares it's all about the audio on the dvd's not the vids. Dont you get that. I could careless about how the videos look, they're good enough. I wasnt to bothered by the 16:9 on GVH II either, in fact I didnt even notice lol