Announcement

Collapse

Fandango at Home Forum Guidelines

Fandango at Home Forum Guidelines

The Fandango at Home Forums are designed to help viewers get the most out of their Fandango at Home experience. Here, Fandango at Home customers may post information, questions, ideas, etc. on the subject of Fandango at Home and Fandango at Home -related issues (home theater, entertainment, etc). Although the primary purpose of these forums is to help Fandango at Home customers with questions and/or problems with their Fandango at Home service, there are also off-topic areas available within the Fandango at Home Forums for users to chat with like-minded people, subject to the limitations below.

Please post all comments in English. When posting a comment in the Fandango at Home Forums, please conduct yourself in a respectful and civil manner. While we respect that you may feel strongly about an issue, please leave room for discussion.

Fandango at Home Forum Guidelines

The Fandango at Home Forums are designed to help viewers get the most out of their Fandango at Home experience. Here, Fandango at Home customers may post information, questions, ideas, etc. on the subject of Fandango at Home and Fandango at Home -related issues (home theater, entertainment, etc). Although the primary purpose of these forums is to help Fandango at Home customers with questions and/or problems with their Fandango at Home service, there are also off-topic areas available within the Fandango at Home Forums for users to chat with like-minded people, subject to the limitations below.

Please post all comments in English. When posting a comment in the Fandango at Home Forums, please conduct yourself in a respectful and civil manner. While we respect that you may feel strongly about an issue, please leave room for discussion.

Fandango at Home reserves the right to refrain from posting and/or to remove user comments, including comments that contain any of the following:

1. Obscenities, defamatory language, discriminatory language, or other language not suitable for a public forum
2. Email addresses, phone numbers, links to websites, physical addresses or other forms of contact information
3. "Spam" content, references to other products, advertisements, or other offers
4. Spiteful or inflammatory comments about other users or their comments
5. Comments that may potentially violate the DMCA or any other applicable laws
6. Comments that discuss ways to manipulate Fandango at Home products/services, including, but not limited to, reverse engineering, video extraction, and file conversion.

Additionally, please keep in mind that although Fandango at Home retains the right to monitor, edit, and/or remove posts within Fandango at Home Forums, it does not necessarily review every comment. Accordingly, specific questions about Fandango at Home products and services should be directed to Fandango at Home customer service representatives.

Terms of Use - User Comments, Feedback, Reviews, Submissions

For all reviews, comments, feedback, postcards, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to Fandango at Home, on or through this Site, by e-mail or telephone, or otherwise disclosed, submitted or offered in connection you use of this Site (collectively, the "Comments") you grant Fandango at Home a royalty-free, irrevocable, transferable right and license to use the Comments however Fandango at Home desires, including, without limitation, to copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and /or distribute such Comments and/or incorporate such Comments into any form, medium or technology throughout the world.
Fandango at Home will be entitled to use, reproduce, disclose, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, publish, display and distribute any Comments you submit for any purpose whatsoever, without restriction and without compensating you in any way. Fandango at Home is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (2) to pay to users any compensation for any Comments; or (3) to respond to any user Comments. You agree that any Comments submitted by you to the Site will not violate the terms in this Terms of Use or any right of any third party, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary right(s), and will not cause injury to any person or entity. You further agree that no Comments submitted by you to this Site will be or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, threatening, abusive or obscene material, or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of "spam."

You grant Fandango at Home the right to use the name that you submit in connection with any Comments. You agree not to use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, otherwise mislead as to the origin of any Comments you submit. You are, and shall remain, solely responsible for the content of any Comments you make and you agree to indemnify Fandango at Home for all claims resulting from any Comments you submit. Fandango at Home takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Comments submitted by you or any third-party reserves the right to refrain from posting and/or to remove user comments, including comments that contain any of the following:

1. Obscenities, defamatory language, discriminatory language, or other language not suitable for a public forum
2. Email addresses, phone numbers, links to websites, physical addresses or other forms of contact information
3. "Spam" content, references to other products, advertisements, or other offers
4. Spiteful or inflammatory comments about other users or their comments
5. Comments that may potentially violate the DMCA or any other applicable laws
6. Comments that discuss ways to manipulate Fandango at Home products/services, including, but not limited to, reverse engineering, video extraction, and file conversion.

Additionally, please keep in mind that although Fandango at Home retains the right to monitor, edit, and/or remove posts within Fandango at Home Forums, it does not necessarily review every comment. Accordingly, specific questions about Fandango at Home products and services should be directed to Fandango at Home customer service representatives.

Terms of Use - User Comments, Feedback, Reviews, Submissions

For all reviews, comments, feedback, postcards, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to Fandango at Home, on or through this Site, by e-mail or telephone, or otherwise disclosed, submitted or offered in connection you use of this Site (collectively, the "Comments") you grant Fandango at Home a royalty-free, irrevocable, transferable right and license to use the Comments however Fandango at Home desires, including, without limitation, to copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and /or distribute such Comments and/or incorporate such Comments into any form, medium or technology throughout the world.
Fandango at Home will be entitled to use, reproduce, disclose, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, publish, display and distribute any Comments you submit for any purpose whatsoever, without restriction and without compensating you in any way. Fandango at Home is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (2) to pay to users any compensation for any Comments; or (3) to respond to any user Comments. You agree that any Comments submitted by you to the Site will not violate the terms in this Terms of Use or any right of any third party, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary right(s), and will not cause injury to any person or entity. You further agree that no Comments submitted by you to this Site will be or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, threatening, abusive or obscene material, or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of "spam."

You grant Fandango at Home the right to use the name that you submit in connection with any Comments. You agree not to use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, otherwise mislead as to the origin of any Comments you submit. You are, and shall remain, solely responsible for the content of any Comments you make and you agree to indemnify Fandango at Home for all claims resulting from any Comments you submit. Fandango at Home takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Comments submitted by you or any third-party.
See more
See less

The Brave One

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
    #1

    The Brave One

    Just finished watching The Brave One with my wife.

    The picture quality was very good. The surround sound was very good. The aspect ratio was correct and filled my HD screen properly. The movie was a current release that we hadn't seen yet, and the movie itself was not half bad.

    I could not tell that it wasn't a DVD that I would get from Netflix.

    Good job Vudu, goodbye Netflix!
    Tags: None
    #2
    Re: The Brave One

    Originally posted by RobertHodge View Post
    Just finished watching The Brave One with my wife.

    The picture quality was very good. The surround sound was very good. The aspect ratio was correct and filled my HD screen properly. The movie was a current release that we hadn't seen yet, and the movie itself was not half bad.

    I could not tell that it wasn't a DVD that I would get from Netflix.

    Good job Vudu, goodbye Netflix!
    What do you mean by the aspect ratio being correct and filling the screen? Most movies, if they have the correct aspect ratio, shoudn't fill the screen since most movies are at an aspect ratio higher than the 1.78:1(16:9) ratio that HD sets have.

    Comment

      #3
      Re: The Brave One

      I'm finding interesting looking movies on Vudu I'd never look at anywhere else. Skinwalkers is one that I've looked at the preview on (it's one of the HD films). If I looked at the poster or jacket, it turned me off. But I watched the preview. It actually looks good. So I might rent it at some point.

      Comment

        #4
        Re: The Brave One

        Originally posted by aaronwt View Post
        What do you mean by the aspect ratio being correct and filling the screen? Most movies, if they have the correct aspect ratio, shoudn't fill the screen since most movies are at an aspect ratio higher than the 1.78:1(16:9) ratio that HD sets have.
        On Directv they advertise some of their movies as widescreen. When you download it and watch it, it's really 4:3 with letter boxing. So it doesn't fill the entire screen unless you use your tv to zoom or strech.

        With Vudu Widescreen, although this particular movie is letter boxed, it fills my 16:9 HD screen from left to right, just like a rented DVD would.

        I said this before, but I think it would also be nice if Vudu would change their movie decriptions for movies that say "Full Screen" to something else that more clearly states that they really mean a 4:3 aspect ratio (whether it's letter boxed or not) instead of 16:9. But don't go overboard and call it anamorphic whatever, because that's just as confusing.

        Another thing I mean about correct aspect ratio is that some HD channels on Directv strech their SD content to fill the screen. Everyone calls it "Strech O Vision" because the picture is distored from it's original aspect ratio, and it's "VERY" annoying to watch. To make things worse because it's broadcast in HD I cannot change my TV to view it any other way than the way they broadcast it. There's been so many complaints about Strech O Vision that a lot of channels are going back to broadcasting the SD content in 4:3 with sidebars. You'll see this alot on ESPN HD with sports repalys that are in SD format.

        Hope that conveys my meaning well.

        Regards

        Comment

          #5
          Re: The Brave One

          The original aspect ratio of "The Brave One" is 2.35:1 so there should be black bars presented above and below during the presentation if you are seeing the entire content. If the black bars are missing it would either be stretched vertically, which would distort the picture, or it is zoomed in to fill a 16:9(1.78:1) ratio TV which would be cutting off at least a third of the picture.
          Last edited by aaronwt; 02-09-2008, 01:15 PM. Reason: changed 2.4:1 to 2.35:1

          Comment

            #6
            Re: The Brave One

            Originally posted by aaronwt View Post
            The original aspect ratio of "The Brave One" is 2.4:1 so there should be black bars presented above and below during the presentation if you are seeing the entire content. If the black bars are missing it would either be stretched vertically, which would distort the picture, or it is zoomed in to fill a 16:9(1.78:1) ratio TV which would be cutting off at least a third of the picture.
            Yes the movie was letter boxed (black bars above and below). But what I mean is that the movie filled the screen from left to right instead of letterboxed 4:3 which has bars on top, bottom and on the left and right. A letterboxed 4:3 movie looks like a postage stamp picture on my tv and this was not the case with "The Brave One" (which made me happy!)

            Comment

              #7
              Re: The Brave One

              Originally posted by NA9D View Post
              I'm finding interesting looking movies on Vudu I'd never look at anywhere else. Skinwalkers is one that I've looked at the preview on (it's one of the HD films). If I looked at the poster or jacket, it turned me off. But I watched the preview. It actually looks good. So I might rent it at some point.
              I watched skinwalkers HD last night. Nothing really great but it was an OK rental.

              Comment

                #8
                Re: The Brave One

                I rented it also. Corny.

                Comment

                  #9
                  Re: The Brave One

                  Originally posted by RobertHodge View Post
                  Just finished watching The Brave One with my wife.

                  The picture quality was very good. The surround sound was very good. The aspect ratio was correct and filled my HD screen properly. The movie was a current release that we hadn't seen yet, and the movie itself was not half bad.

                  I could not tell that it wasn't a DVD that I would get from Netflix.

                  Good job Vudu, goodbye Netflix!
                  Although off-topic, the wife and I also enjoyed and recommend The Brave One. Looks like Jodie Foster had some facial work done. I might not had recongized her if it wasn't for her voice...

                  Comment

                  Previous template Next
                  Working...
                  X