If the IMAX 1.43:1 ratio were to ever be adopted by the TV companies, would you buy one?

No.

Anything with IMAX name on it would automatically have about a 200% markup.

They'd probably partner with some really high end TV manufacturer and charge $5000 for a 55" TV and you'd basically only bea able to watch Chris Nolan movies on it to get the actual full effect.

It would be a collosal waste of money.

As I understand it, movies were filmed in widescreen originally because it's more immersive within your field of vision.

In your example, the horizontal width appears to be the same, while the vertical has been stretched.

I can't really see a downside to this, since in effect you're just adding more information to the screen (hence we're seeing more of his face).

Now if you shrunk the screen to get that ratio, sure. But keeping the same width (periphery) and adding height seems pretty cool, IMO.

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If the IMAX 1.43:1 ratio were to ever be adopted by the TV companies, would you buy one?

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There would have to be more 1.43:1 content available. Zach Snyder's Justice League is the only thing I can think of available for at home viewing in that aspect ratio right now.

Nolan is basically the only director currently filming in that aspect ratio. So I don't see how this would ever be a thing.

There have been attempts at selling 2.35:1 aspect ratio TV's but they obviously never sold very well.

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we would've come full circle if that happens...

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or full rectangle.

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formatted into pan and scan which sucked.

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What are you talking about? Pan and Scan was awesome.

Shite happening off screen often could add to a weak storyline and made you activate your imagination.

Who's saying this dialogue? Let me ponder the possibilities.

No.

That would be like going back to an old box-shaped TV. Who thinks that configuration is better?

I couldn't watch some of the best movies out there the way the film makers wanted. Screw whoever started making movies that way.

Films I think need to be seen in a widescreen aspect:

30"s
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of OZ
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Big Trail

40's
Casablanca
How Green Was My Valley
The Shepherd of the Hills

50's
Ben Hur
The Ten Commandments
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
North by Northwest
Demetrius and the Gladiators
The Egyptian
Frankenstein
Land of the Pharohs
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train

60's
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge On The River Kwai
2001
Cool Hand Luke
The Longest Day
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Full Metal Jacket
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Wild Bunch
The Man Who Knew Too Much
In Cold Blood
To Catch a Thief
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Doctor Zhivago
Planet of the Apes
The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World
Bonnie & Clyde
The Dirty Dozen
Cleopatra
Easy Rider

70's
Star Wars
Close Encounters
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Rocky (all of them)
Chinatown
The Elephant Man
The Deer Hunter
Superman
Days of Heaven
The Last Picture Show
Patton
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Godfather Trilogy
Live and Let Die
Mad Max
Deliverance
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The French Connection I & II
The Omen
Paper Moon
Little Big Man
The Man Who Would be King
Papillon
Barry Lyndon

80's
Predator
Empire of the Sun
The Last Emperor
Glory
Platoon
Lonesome Dove
The Color Purple
Hoosiers
Das Boot
Raging Bull
48 Hrs.
An American Werewolf in London
Back to the Future
The Natural
Ghostbusters
Raising Arizona
2010
Lethal Weapon
Cocoon

90's
Matrix trilogy
Jurassic Park
Starship Troopers
Interview with the Vampire
The Lion King
The Last of the Mohicans
Jurassic Park
A River Runs Through It
The Mask
Goodfellas
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Edward Scissorhands
Miller's Crossing
Legends of the Fall
The Big Lebowski
Eyes Wide Shut
The Pacific

2000's
Apocalypto
Gladiator
Firefly series
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Band of Brothers
Sin City
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Rescue Dawn
Monsters, Inc.
Avatar
Batman movies since 1989
Children of Men
Cloverfield
Destrict 9
Big Fish
AI
Army of Darkness

2010's
Interstellar
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Dunkirk
Darkest Hour

I imagine I'm leaving a bunch off, but I think this makes my point.

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They'd probably partner with some really high end TV manufacturer and charge $5000 for a 55" TV

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for the 1st 2 years. After that there would be too much competition

I just want one size for all the shite I watch. Whatever size tvs are, make everything that size and stop this foolishness.

If the price is about thes same, sure