Maybe what you could do with is a really huge TV. Now, by and large I’m not a giant fan of television. In reality, I think most TV shows are terrible, mind-numbing affairs, though seldom a decent program will crop up every now and then. I’m a film fan though; I love the stories, the adventure, the cinematography. I feel like movies have the time and effort put in them that TV shows lack, and I feel it shows. Still, to really get the full effect of a picture I as a rule like to see it in letterboxed format, since that’s how it’s presented in the theatres. You may see that if you find a picture on television they’ll tell you the film was adapted for watching on your television. Filmmakers alter their flicks for TV by cutting off part of the frame to make the shot narrower, which can sometimes have detrimental effects on the cinematography. It’s like how to get rid of skin tags – it has to be done by an individual who knows what they’re doing. Nevertheless, unless you see letterboxed films on a big Television or on a widescreen TV, the added black strips on the top and bottom of the screen make the frames significantly smaller, which makes people pretty little on a fourteen inch or sixteen inch display.
I never thought I wanted a big Television, especially since I didn’t view TV very often. I could get by with a little one, even if it meant that the Jurassic Park dinosaurs weren’t quite as ferocious as they were in the movie theatre. In addition, I spend most of my time on niche marketing, so not a whole lot is open for TV viewing anyway. Then, one Christmas my aunt got my uncle a huge entertainment center and had it installed for him, complete with a huge Television and surround sound. He invited a few of us into the den and put in a copy of Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. It was incredible. The D-Day invasion was bigger and more ominous than I remembered, and when the shooting began it sounded like bullets were flying around the living room. He had managed to copy the movie house experience in his own house, and I was addicted.

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