To view my response, click your mouse on the underlined text. If you want to see the original Bernie Farber page, it is located at http://members.aol.com/savetele.
This page aims to do several things: 1) provide
objective factual
information
about letterboxing or so-called "widescreen" versions of films
on video and television (which should more accurately be called
lettershlocking
or "cutscreen"; 2) to help organize the opposition and resistance
to this
vilest
form of movie
censorship
and to HDTV
(they want to force
you to buy new tvs with different dimensions designed to fit lettershlocking,
and to take away our rights to watch and enjoy television as it now is),
as well as to
DVD (the format that the vile lettershlock censors are trying
to foist off on us, it features built-in lettershlocking, believe it or
not!);
3) to organize opposition to the DVD
format.
The vast majority
of tv viewers must speak out before
the vile lettershlockers take away
television, movies, and videos from us.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
1. WHAT IS "LETTERBOXING" (LETTERSHLOCKING)?
"Letterboxing" is the vile practice of censoring movies on video and broadcast television or cable by blocking the top and bottom of the television screen with black bars so that you cannot watch or enjoy the movie. Letterboxing/Lettershlocking censorship ignores the fact that the television screen is a different shape than the movie screen, so that the movie must be correctly formatted to fit the television screen.
2. WHAT IS "WIDESCREEN"?
"Widescreen" is the same thing as "letterboxing"/lettershlocking. The term is used as propaganda to actually suggest that these censored renditions of the films are somehow better, preferable, superior. Further, the term itself is an absolute lie. The width of the television screen, obviously, is a fixed physical dimension. The image presented in lettershlocked "widescreen" garbage is the same width as any other television image. The top and bottom of the screen, rather than containing an image, is now blocked by black bars so that no image at all appears there. This is why a more accurate term than "widescreen" would be "cutscreen" or /widescreen, watching or enjoying the film.. 99.999999999999% of the viewing public recognizes this for the atrocity it is. Yet the advocates of this want to take away your right to watch and enjoy movies on video, broadcast tv and cable, by pushing this lettershlocking on us. They can and must be stopped. They will be. The twenty-first century will be a totally lettershlock-free time! FREEDOM!
3. WHAT CAN WE DO?
To preserve our right to watch and enjoy movies on video and television, we can:
Lettershlocking will end! Film censorship will be defeated! HDTV will become the Betamax of the late 90's. DVD disks with lettershlocking will become the 8-tracks of the late 90's. FULLSCREEN FOR ME! BAN THE BARS! DIVX NOT DVD! CANCEL HDTV BEFORE IT BEGINS! LETTERSHLOCKING IS WRONG! IT WILL END!
CHECK BACK HERE FREQUENTLY FOR UPDATES ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN FOR FREEDOM! TELL YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND FAMILY!
HAVE YOUR ORGANIZATION ENDORSE AN END TO LETTERSHLOCKING!
BILLIONS OF TV VIEWERS WILL NOT BE DENIED! SAVE TELEVISION! OUTLAW LETTERSHLOCKING, the vilest evil of all time.
For more information, email SAVETELE@aol.com. Email from lettershlockers is no longer answered, as of April 27, 1999. We have no interest in debating them, and, as they have nothing legitimate to say, there is no point in dignifying their ludicrous arguments by responding to them. Hey lettershlockers--go away--we will no longer spend even one second responding to you. We're going to organize the majority and totally put an end to lettershlocking, the vilest evil of all time. FREEDOM!
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Opponents of lettershlocking censorship of movies, the
vilest
evil
of all
time, have visited this page since May 20, 1999.
