Hi Sparkle--
You have it completely backwards and many people feel the same as you. Though it's a personal preference, I implore you NOT to buy fullscreen. You are missing a good chunk of the film frame and vision of the director. Please see this link immediately to see the difference in picture and loss:
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/release/video/f20020925/index.htmlWitih fullscreen, a hack technician who transfers the film from DVD employs a damaging process called "pan and scan" to fit a rectangular movie ratio into a square TV ratio, deciding which portions of the frame you should look at and then moving the scan around the actual film frame to "show" you what you should see. Oh, and in the process he arbitrarily "chops" the edges off the picture too. All sense of Rodrigo Prieto's balance and composition will go out the window (if you can even see the window in BBM's final scene, that is). Get the widescreen version and deal with the image, a bit smaller if you have a standard TV, but complete, as it is meant to be seen. Anything else is blasphemous.
If someone who bought the fullscreen version could watch and then describe the final scene of the movie, I would love it ---- I imagine that there would have to be a superfluous pan and scan movement added to get to Ennis' window, but I'm not sure. Since the film is not in any extra wide format like 2.35:1, it won't be as damaging as it has been in other films.
BBM ratio: 1.85:1
Standard TV screen ratio: 4:3
Widescreen TV ratio: 1.78:1 (16x9)
If you have a widescreen TV, the widescreen enhanced film will fit perfectly with no black bars.