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Mielr
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Why is the GOUT not anamorphic?
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19-May-2008, 11:43 PM
Fang Zei said:

OK, maybe there's an obvious answer to this question that I'm just not seeing, but here goes:

Since George obviously didn't intend the GOUT to be watched on widescreen displays (what with the subtitles getting cut off and all), why did he bother progressively encoding the video? I thought only widescreen sets were capable of displaying progressive material.
Yeah, but most movie DVDs are flagged progressive (or should be). While they're obviously not formatted for 16:9 TVs, I guess they figured they're going to be watched on a lot of widescreen TVs and computer monitors. Frankly, I'm glad they at least did that much. :-/