Originally posted by: VigoThe answer is: no. Every non-anamorphic transfer is either a non-widescreen movie, or the DVD was mastered using an old laserdisc/video master.
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I was actually thinking of wierd situations like Artisan's first dvd release of "Frank Herbert's Dune" (the U.S. broadcast edit), back in 2001. It's presented 4:3 letterboxed (1.77:1), just as it was when it aired on scifi channel in December of 2000. Artisan must've simply used the same master used for the broadcast to make their dvd and not had any actual film source with which to make an anamorphic transfer. When it came time to do the Director's Cut in 2003, they did have the actual elements and thus made the dvd 16:9 enhanced.