"But without an anamorphic transfer, trying to watch it on a widescreen monitor is going to distort the picture terribly. It'll be like watching it through a carnival mirror. That's the issue.
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Methinks he's referring to the "stretch-mode" that many TVs have to make a 4x3 picture fit a 16x9 screen. There are many ways to do this, each with their own limitations.