...unless you’re cropping the sides off, 16:9 doesn’t give you full screen on “the majority” of movies.

Nobody brought that up because anyone who buys a 21:9 screen isn’t going to pan & scan with it, but would pillarbox & letterbox—and plenty of people brought up that releases are hardcoded 16:9, so a 21:9 screen, at this point, is futile.

What you don’t seem to realize is that, even at the time you made your “joke”, IMAX cameras were (and still are) becoming popular for Hollywood use.

Because even now, 5 years later, media is hardcoded to be 16:9. Why embrace (read: buy) a 21:9 TV when, for the most part, you wouldn’t be using more than 16:9? The way movies like “The Dark Knight” or “The Hunger Games” were released on Blu-Ray means that you can’t crop the bars off or you lose significant portions…

Because the standard ratio is now 16:9, so calling it 21:9 allows the consumer to visualize the difference without forcing them to do math.

All the comments and NOBODY posted a link or reference to Ali G’s interview with Charles L. Schultze?!

You don’t need to prove it conclusively, though. All you need is a hunch and the person in question to confess.

Um...

See, but what you’re missing is that if Alpine didn’t send that message, they could easily find themselves dealing with similar from more and more and more employees. If you come across as condoning something long enough, people will start to take it as acceptable behavior. Once you run into that, Microsoft very well…

Copyrights aren’t trademarks. The copyright owner has no legal obligation to sue, and most wouldn’t bother.

It’s one of those things that’s only illegal if the copyright owner cares.

And I trust you then I mark it down the same amount for the buyer or use the refurb fee to actually, ya know, replace it?

Honestly, I’d say what you did is worse.

So you knowingly sell them broken controllers, but THEY’RE the problem?

And those don’t exist either.

I don’t know about that, but it is helping me determine who’s stupid: namely, the people who still think BBT has a laugh track.

With regard to the branding comment, I agree that there’s no real reason for it to be national news, but, locally, the outcry makes sense.