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adywan
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Info: When does fullscreen show more than widescreen?
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5-Feb-2008, 4:42 AM
Here's a few screenshots examples showing the matting issue with Independence Day. The fullscreen shots are taken from the Fullscreen VHS and the widescreen ones are from the special edition 2 disc DVD set
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3820/independenceday0ir3.jpg
Unfortunately the VHS has degraded hell and the last half of the film is almost unwatchable, which is a shame because i would have liked to have made a DVD version of this. When it was originally shown on UK TV it was the 16:9 version which was the original theatrical ratio so the whole picture was there unlike the DVD versions ( I don't know if the fullscreen DVD versions are pan & scan versions of the DVD transfer or the same as the original fullscreen VHS versions)