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I don't see what all the fuss is about... - Version: 2.2, 3/22/2007 09:30AM PST
(1 of 3 users found this comment useful)
jowie
...It's a widescreen Movie Player. I have a laptop, I want to play my widescreen movies in the correct aspect ratio on my widescreen tv. Apple didn't provide me with a 16:9 resolution output for the tv, and so I need a piece of software that can stretch the image so it's correct on the tv.
Are you telling me that QuickTime Player and/or VLC do these things? Because as far as I know, they don't.
Are you telling me that QuickTime Player and/or VLC do these things? Because as far as I know, they don't.
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- I don't see what all the fuss is about...
I beg your pardon... 
- Version: 2.2, 2/25/2007 05:05PM PST
(1 of 8 users found this comment useful)
Clams McShrew
I beg your pardon, but I don't recall having posted a review of this product here yet.
Did I?
So why all the AtuGuy bashing?
And since when do we not have the right to positively review products for which we have purchased a license?
I mean, how else can we properly review products if we aren't actually using them?
And that said, I will now concur that this is an excellent movie player.
I am the owner of a very large collection of DVDs and using Wide Screen Movie Player I am able to enjoy watching my favorite flicks in wide screen mode as they were intended to be seen.
If you don't understand why wide screen is preferable to letterbox,
then I can see why you might not appreciate this application.
But if you can't appreciate the quality of Alpha Omega's products then you probably shouldn't be writing negative reviews here.
Maybe some of you took a wrong turn on your way to the forum for developer bashing?
This forum is intended for serious reviews from serious users.
Thank you
Did I?
So why all the AtuGuy bashing?
And since when do we not have the right to positively review products for which we have purchased a license?
I mean, how else can we properly review products if we aren't actually using them?
And that said, I will now concur that this is an excellent movie player.
I am the owner of a very large collection of DVDs and using Wide Screen Movie Player I am able to enjoy watching my favorite flicks in wide screen mode as they were intended to be seen.
If you don't understand why wide screen is preferable to letterbox,
then I can see why you might not appreciate this application.
But if you can't appreciate the quality of Alpha Omega's products then you probably shouldn't be writing negative reviews here.
Maybe some of you took a wrong turn on your way to the forum for developer bashing?
This forum is intended for serious reviews from serious users.
Thank you
Steer Clear 
- Version: 1.5, 10/16/2004 04:32PM PST
(1 of 5 users found this comment useful)
Mr_London
a new version and the deveoper has a new name to big up all is AlphaOmega rubbish products "AtuGuy" is giving 5 star reviews to all his own products, what a crook!
naysayers! - Version: 1.5, 10/12/2004 04:56PM PST
(6 of 9 users found this comment useful)
harsher
Below is the same AtuGuy and what he says about another AlphaOmega program.
He even uses the same nickname and same expression (naysayers!).
Couldn't he be smarter about promoting his own crap.
>>Throw away Word, AppleWorks and Text Edit Plus! AtuGuy
>>Version: 1.7, 2/29/2004 01:05PM PST
>>Too many text editor apps are overburdened with features we writers >>don't really need. This one has only the features that serious writers use >>the most. Like "scrolling forward and backward through all opened >>windows." Plus Plain Text Editor is the only one I know of that is actually >>compatible with Extended Software Updater. Which makes it worth its >>weight in Plutonium. Disregard the naysayers. This is the text editor of >>choice for serious nerds of letters.
He even uses the same nickname and same expression (naysayers!).
Couldn't he be smarter about promoting his own crap.
>>Throw away Word, AppleWorks and Text Edit Plus! AtuGuy
>>Version: 1.7, 2/29/2004 01:05PM PST
>>Too many text editor apps are overburdened with features we writers >>don't really need. This one has only the features that serious writers use >>the most. Like "scrolling forward and backward through all opened >>windows." Plus Plain Text Editor is the only one I know of that is actually >>compatible with Extended Software Updater. Which makes it worth its >>weight in Plutonium. Disregard the naysayers. This is the text editor of >>choice for serious nerds of letters.
Utterly Useless Garbage - Version: 1.4, 6/13/2004 01:48PM PST
(7 of 10 users found this comment useful)
Online Since 1987
This foul piece of tripe is nothing short of blasphemy. For one thing, REAL movies in REAL movie theatres are presented in their true aspect ratios. To preserve these ratios on stupidly square screens, black bars must be present. That being the case, this application is not only 100% moronic, but actually does rotten things a movie. Yes, this application belongs with the "Terror Alert Menu Bar" and other such completely useless fodder as they run for competition in "The World's Worst Software" awards, held each year at the Kodak Theatre (in deep midwinter).
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Ill have to think about this one.... - Version: 1.3, 5/1/2004 11:08AM PST
(5 of 6 users found this comment useful)
Gennx30
it calls itself WIDESCREEN MOVIE PLAYER.....but it actually makes movies FULL SCREEN or (pan and scan-cropped) So I went to the poster store and bought a nice print of THE LAST SUPPER-but I happen to like my paintings square, not rectangular, so i cut off both ends, and now it just shows Jesus and the FOUR Disciples-two on either side of him-bye bye to the other 8 guys.
Wow...... - Version: 1.0, 11/24/2003 10:04AM PST
(8 of 9 users found this comment useful)
Mr. Pi
This program simply allows you to zoom in the video to get rid of the black bars on a widescreen movie, any other "features" it brags about are useless. This is NOT worth the money whatsoever. There is no point in even downloading it unless you can't stand the black bars. Then there is the fact that just zooming in on a movie doesn't really work. Since you are just getting the center of the wide view, you miss things that happen when the camera is not pointed directly at them, which is fixed when the movie companies convert a film, since they select the most important part of the frame and zoom in on that. If we watched all movies in just cropped 4:3, we would have a very interesting time dealing with half-faces and strange parts missing. If you just want to play a movie full screen then download VLC, MPlayer or any other alternative, if you really like quicktime and want to play a movie full screen the compile this code in Script Editor and run it as an application when you have a movie open in Quicktime.
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
present movie
end tell
Save it as an application and then simply run it with any movie open in Quicktime. Its that simple.
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
present movie
end tell
Save it as an application and then simply run it with any movie open in Quicktime. Its that simple.
Return Of The Moron (Episode XXIV) - Version: 1.0, 10/13/2003 07:33AM PST
(14 of 15 users found this comment useful)
Rip0ff
As the other products from AlphaOmega, this one tries to rip you off your money for a poor program you can find far better (and most of the time free) alternatives on VT, for example MPlayer or VLC (the pro mode of QT will also play movies full screen).
For those not yet familiar with the developper's ways, here are a little information:
-This company (in fact, it is a one-moron operation) sells only silly or useless software (duplicating a function already existing in OSX is an AlphaOmega favorite).
-The true ratings average between one and two stars.
-The developper tried to overcome the poor ratings by posting full 5 stars reviews for all of his products, first under the name of TheFairOne, then PatrickDanielle until either the VT staff deleted them due to complaints or else he realised he was burned.
For more information, have a look at AlphaOmega other products reviews (Mouse Distance Measurer is one of my favorites, Internet Disconnector will show you how the developper sells a already OSX built-in function).
For those not yet familiar with the developper's ways, here are a little information:
-This company (in fact, it is a one-moron operation) sells only silly or useless software (duplicating a function already existing in OSX is an AlphaOmega favorite).
-The true ratings average between one and two stars.
-The developper tried to overcome the poor ratings by posting full 5 stars reviews for all of his products, first under the name of TheFairOne, then PatrickDanielle until either the VT staff deleted them due to complaints or else he realised he was burned.
For more information, have a look at AlphaOmega other products reviews (Mouse Distance Measurer is one of my favorites, Internet Disconnector will show you how the developper sells a already OSX built-in function).
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With Wide Screen Movie Player you can easily set the size of the player while keeping a nice black background that doesn't disturb your eyes.
For what I have seen the application basically creates a black windows that embeds a quicktime player that you can resize inside the container using keybord shortcuts or the menu bar. the window can be set at full screen hiding the dock and the menubar. stretching the embedded qt player have a slightly different behaviour than switching quicktime to full screen mode and i found it better. the problems arise when you try to zoom the actual content. that is pretty useless since the videos become unwatchable and out-of-sync even on a 2.4 dual core macbook pro.
the licence is definetly too expensive for what you get