negative1 said:
also what about VHS? i've never owned a videotape or VCR.... surely something must

have come out in letterboxed format for it??

Yes, a large number of VHS tapes were letterboxed.

Just for the SW Trilogy alone there were at least 3 or 4 letterboxed VHS sets released. I own two separate letterboxed editions of original SW Trilogy - the "faces" VHS set from '95 (which was also available in Pan&Scan) and the "hologram" letterboxed VHS set from '93 (which was sort of a VHS companion to the Definitive Collection LD set).

I used to also have the letterboxed VHS of Phantom Menace, but I never opened it and ended up taking it back to the store.