Originally posted by: THX The fullscreen DVDs do actually have improved resolution in the selected 4:3 area. The same picture area in the anamorphic widescreen DVD uses less pixels horizontally.

I assume you're referring to the difference between the aspect ratio of the standard 16:9 widescreen format and the sometimes "thinner" native aspect ratio of the film itself (and the scan lines that are wasted in the resulting thin black bars that fill in the difference), and a Pan and Scan transfer which extends all the way to the top and bottom of the screen, with no scan lines wasted on black bars?