I hate movies and their crappy screen standards.
Back in the 90's and earlier, we had 4:3 televisions. Sometimes a movie would be in widescreen, which rendered part of the top and bottom of the screen useless. (My father always called them "mailbox movies", because they looked as if you were looking at them through the slit of a mailbox.)
Then widescreen TV's started becoming popular. But then, the 4:3 movies showed with black bars left and rigth; to me, that is much preferable than wider movies with bars on the top and bottom.
At around 2008-ish flatscreen/widescreen TV's were the norm in The Netherlands; all 16:9, most DVD's and early blu-rays were 16:9, TV-broadcasts were 16:9; life was good. We could actually use the entire screen.
Yesterday I watched a movie on a blu-ray disc (first in a long time, because it's not on Netflix or Prime and I wanted to see it) and it is SO widescreen that it is a mailbox movie on a 16:9 TV; so much so that it renders about 1/3rd of the 55 inch TV useless.
So it is actually 16:6, or 24:9.
I think that's ridiculous. Most ultra-widescreen monitors are 21:9, except for a few super-widescreen specialized monitors aimed at replacing a two-monitor setup. These are 32:9. (So exactly the width of two widescreen monitors next to one another.) At the moment I can't even find a 21:9 TV in the Netherlands (do they actually exist?), let alone 24:9.
Crap like this is one of the reasons why I once thought of getting a beamer. Obviously it doesn't make the movie bigger, but when projecting it directly at the wall, it will at least _look like_ it doesn't waste so much screen real estate.
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Playing a video game, I managed to quicksave in the split-second before an elevator squashed my player (who, for some bizarre reason I can't ever imagine, was standing under it as it was descending -- nope, don't look at me, it's not my fault).
So I'd get crushed by the elevator, the quicksave would reload, I'd get crushed by the elevator, the quicksave would reload, I'd get crushed by the elevator...
I eventually reverted to my last manual save, which was an hour earlier.
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Seems that elevator has a crush on you...
Sorry. Couldn't resist.