It's just that if it turns out the NTSC release won't give me more picture information, I won't bother getting it. Then I could just as easy zoom in on my PAL DVD. But it's also the first time I've heard of this thing, matting off a full-screen film to make it widescreen. Ridiculous if you ask me. Or the director must have intended it to be shown in widescreen in the first place, it was probably shown in theatres that way. It's just that if it turns out the NTSC release won't give me more picture information, I won't bother getting it. Then I could just as easy zoom in on my PAL DVD. But it's also the first time I've heard of this thing, matting off a full-screen film to make it widescreen. Ridiculous if you ask me. Or the director must have intended it to be shown in widescreen in the first place, it was probably shown in theatres that way.