Blame the Need to Go Wide to the film Industry
Although the widescreen format wasn’t wholly based on a caprice, the need to release movies in wide picture ratios is the quick solution to hiding the physical flaws created on the film negatives from editing processes. Thanks again to the rise of television channels that offer movies as their staple programs and those film playing gadgets that have evolved from the standard video tape players to the highly advanced Blu-Ray players, owning a wide screen television is kind of a must.
Not a film backer yourself and sticking with the other non-movie-centric television channels has become your life’s main principles? You will not be saved from owning a flat wide screen television neither, as a few networks has switched to wider viewing formats too. Does the image of Conan O’Brien demonstrating how wide his network has gone ring a bell?
Going flat on the other hand is an only classy factor for me. Let’s all be truthful and face it, the look of a flat wide screen is surely a much lovelier sight than an old and bulky television.
