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Does anyone have advice on where I could find 4:3 copies of movies and TV shows to download? (leminal.space)

submitted 2 days ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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For context I am doing this because of EmuVR. It's a VR application that allows you to play retro games in an early 2000s bedroom on big CRT TVs. You can also use a VCR to watch movies. The problem I'm running into is a lot of movies/TV shows have been updated to be 16:9 which causes a lot of letterboxing on the 4:3 TVs.

I have tried searching around various torrent and DDL sites with minimal luck. Most of them seem to struggle with recognizing "4:3" as a search term. Adding the term "aspect ratio" seems to help but doesn't narrow it down completely and only provides a few results.

I am aware of a few individuals like threesixtyp on The Pirate Bay who put out bundles of TV shows and movies in the original aspect ratio but I'm wondering does anyone else had suggestions on how or where I could find this kind of thing? Maybe a site has an advance search section for aspect ratios for example.

I figured some kind of specialty or niche torrent site may have something. I could see something like a best retro movie pack popping up on 4chan's torrent board.

I am aware I could crop the videos with a program like Handbrake but that would take a decent amount of time to do.

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[–] nafzib@feddit.online 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You might try SDTV or Fullscreen (plus DVD or VHS since those were the last formats that typically offered that aspect ratio regularly) as tags/search terms. I am otherwise unaware of any specific automated search options for 4:3 content. :/

Obviously it would take some work, but you could set up an automated set of scripts that would crop the videos and spit them out as 4:3.

Is there no option within the vr application itself to auto zoom and crop videos to fit the TV?

[–] pfwood178@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

The problem with the "crop it down" suggestions is that many native 4:3 releases were cropped to be re-released as 16:9... Cropping again to 4:3 would sacrifice even more of the original picture.