MoveAlong said:
budwhite said:
I just watched a few minutes of it.(d/l from a.b.starwars) Very decent looking, better than I thought it would be. But is the aspect ratio correct? I had thicker black bars than usual on my 32" WS TV.

The bottom of the print Puggo telecined was severely cropped. Therefore the black bars have to be bigger to maintain proper AR.

I noticed that if I used an older DVD player to play it on my widescreen plasma, I had to tell the DVD player that it was talking to a 16:9 display. Otherwise, it REALLY squished it and everyone looked stretched horizontally. So make sure you have your player/TV all set up right for anamorphic display. And yes, even when set up correctly the black bars are mighty thick. 480x720 squished to 310x720 and then stretched another 25% by the hardware - you do the math. Just pretend you're at the Cineramadome!