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Originally posted by: slade37Quote
It's not the case, even with a 16x9 you would still have small black bars on top and bottom, and the film aspect ratio is something like 2.35:1 or something like that...
That's what I said. The DVDs were made for 16x9 TVs - not using the original aspect ratio of the movies. These DVDs are a type of 16x9 full screen transfer - a 16x9 pan\scan version to fill a 16x9 TV screen.
I checked the DVD box while at the store the other day. It does say it is enhanced for 16x9 TVs. It does not claim to respresent the original aspect ratio.
Slade, the DVDs I've seen, on a 16x9 TV, were not "16x9 pan scanned". You still get black bars on top and bottom (small ones), and the film mantains it's 1:2.35 ratio. So it's ont like they cropped this part of the frame for it to fit into a 16x9...