{"id":1780,"date":"2003-08-23T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T00:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:17:32","slug":"1780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/23\/1780\/","title":{"rendered":"Widescreen vs Fullscreen II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/lotrbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Yesterday I was promising how I would upload my annual widescreen\/fullscreen comparison of <i>The Two Towers<\/i> once my video card is fixed. And today I discover that with the latest copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intervideo.com\/jsp\/Home.jsp\">WinDVD<\/a> I can avoid a lot of the &#8220;green curtain&#8221; <i>Matrix<\/i>-like anomalies I was getting with ATI&#8217;s DVD player\u2026which means I am able to present my comparison after all. (And which also means this entry cost me seventy bucks to make!)<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; WinDVD&#8217;s screen grabs are also nicer with this new version, so I chose to present the comparison on its own page. The screen grabs are also rather large, but considering Andrew Lesnie&#8217;s great cinematography and the awesome work of Weta Digital I just couldn&#8217;t bring myself to compress the JPEGs too much.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Here it is, my <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/lotr\/t2tcomparison.html\"><i>Two Towers<\/i> widescreen\/fullscreen comparison<\/a> (seeing as the full-screen DVD is not quite so dismissible as the DVD websites might have you think).<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; My original <i>Fellowship of the Ring<\/i> comparison <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/08\/06\/widescreen-vs-fullscreen\/\">can be seen here<\/a>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Yesterday I was promising how I would upload my annual widescreen\/fullscreen comparison of The Two Towers once my video card is fixed. And today I discover that with the latest copy of WinDVD I can avoid a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/23\/1780\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}