Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
The garbage mattes were there in the theater, but you would have been hard pressed to notice them. On home video they artificially brightened things up a bit, which made those mattes plain as day. Even with the previous to DVD home video releases you could get rid of the garbage mattesd with the right contrast/brightness setting. Most of them are still there on the 2004 SE, but they are just not artificially brightened so they don't show up quite as easily as they did on previous home video releases.
The garbage mattes were there in the theater, but you would have been hard pressed to notice them. On home video they artificially brightened things up a bit, which made those mattes plain as day. Even with the previous to DVD home video releases you could get rid of the garbage mattesd with the right contrast/brightness setting. Most of them are still there on the 2004 SE, but they are just not artificially brightened so they don't show up quite as easily as they did on previous home video releases.
Out of all the home video releases I own, I never noticed garbage mattes until I saw the laserdiscs. I had no idea what they were called at the time, so myself and friends coined the term "blue screen boxes". I figured they were artifacts from the blue screen. Heck, when we first saw them, all we noticed was some weird blue thing following the TIEs and changing shape rapidly. It wasn't until we looked closer that we realized what it was. Of course now I always see them.