Sadly, plain widescreen is not good enough. Without animorphic, the movie will look bad on a widescreen telivision. You may ask yourself why this matters. Maybe you don't have a widescreen telivision. But if you ever do get a widescreen TV, you'll have to uyse a zoom feature to see the movie fill up the screen, and it'll look awful. Check out the digital bits for a great guide on anamorphic releases.