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Posted: Jun 25th 2007 2:02PM (Unverified) said

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"Wider is better" was Pontiac.

Posted: Jun 25th 2007 2:03PM tifosiv122 said

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As a wise Mazda spokesperson said, "Wider is better."

That would be Pontiac who ran those commercials.

Posted: Jun 25th 2007 2:03PM (Unverified) said

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"many movies are shot in a widescreen format"? More like "every movie since at least the 60s has been shot in widescreen if not cinemascope (2.35:1)". I'm sure there are exceptions like cheap-ass TV movies, but 16:9 and 2.35:1 have been the two standards for close to fifty years.

Posted: Jun 25th 2007 2:25PM Itchy said

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Actually, as far as aspect ratio, the vast majority of films are shot in flat (1.85). Scope (2.35) is very common, but most commonly used for action/adventure films or epics (think "Lawrence of Arabia"). The HD aspect ratio is actually 1.77 (aka 16x9). Some people mistakenly believe that 16x9 is 1.85. This is incorrect (just divide 16 by 9 if you don't believe me). So if you are watching your flat or scope films on an HD set, you should always have black bars on the top and bottom of the screen (left and right for standard TV, which is 1.33). However, most DVDs that are released now say "enhanced for 16x9" televisions, which is just the new "full screen" format; They've actually cropped the 1.85 image aspect ratio so that it will fit 1.77. As far as I can tell they've left 2.35 images alone.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but I'm a projectionist and get paid to think about these things constantly.

Posted: Jun 25th 2007 4:32PM (Unverified) said

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What is this screen capture plugin? I did a search on this site, and didn't come up with any hits, do you have a URL for it?

Posted: Jun 25th 2007 5:03PM (Unverified) said

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5, it's called SVCapture.

http://www.cheatsync.net/SVCapture.html

Posted: Jun 27th 2007 11:17PM (Unverified) said

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Go conan!

Posted: Jun 27th 2007 1:09PM andyscout said

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"Future games, such as Wipeout Pulse, will include an in-game photo capture system"

LocoRoco already has an in-game photo-capture. I think its the select button while you're playing a level.

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