12th December 2003, 8:37 PM
I'd MUCH rather have the extra stuff, even if I never watch it, than have a DVD with duel versions on (good and bad versions I call them). They should just stop making full screen altogether.
Now, what annoys me is when things that AREN'T movies go wide screen for no reason except to annoy me. For instance, .hack is wide screen and so is Enterprise. WHY?! It's not being shown in a theater! Maybe Enterprise has some reason, it's probably filmed that way, but cartoons aren't filmed! Now not all my screen is being used for no reason! Thing is, most people can't afford to get a new TV whenever they get updated, which is why it's taken so long for HDTV to come out in the first place. I know I won't be getting an HDTV until the price drops down from the FRICKIN' THOUSANDS. Yeesh, I can get LCD screens for less than the price of a GBASP (that's HOW I get them in fact, since the screen isn't the entire price of it). Why should ones that basically have only size about them be so much more expensive? I submit that while some of it really is the technology being more expensive, the real reason for the cost is people are willing to pay that much. Same as why DVDs and CDs are as expensive as they are. I mean, why should my display unit end up being 4 times the cost of the REST of my computer?
Now, what annoys me is when things that AREN'T movies go wide screen for no reason except to annoy me. For instance, .hack is wide screen and so is Enterprise. WHY?! It's not being shown in a theater! Maybe Enterprise has some reason, it's probably filmed that way, but cartoons aren't filmed! Now not all my screen is being used for no reason! Thing is, most people can't afford to get a new TV whenever they get updated, which is why it's taken so long for HDTV to come out in the first place. I know I won't be getting an HDTV until the price drops down from the FRICKIN' THOUSANDS. Yeesh, I can get LCD screens for less than the price of a GBASP (that's HOW I get them in fact, since the screen isn't the entire price of it). Why should ones that basically have only size about them be so much more expensive? I submit that while some of it really is the technology being more expensive, the real reason for the cost is people are willing to pay that much. Same as why DVDs and CDs are as expensive as they are. I mean, why should my display unit end up being 4 times the cost of the REST of my computer?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)