No, I think he's serious. And I agree (yes, believe it or not I'm agreeing with marioxb) that I like the mattes as well. However, as stupid as this sounds, they look better in anamorphic since they're not sharing resolution lines. But I wouldn't want to watch a non-anamorphic disc on a widescreen TV, because I'm not fond of vertical mattes. I'll just take the horizontals.