MaximRecoil said:

Just to clarify: by "some people", you mean that about 85% of the TVs in U.S. households in 2006 were 4:3 CRT SDTVs. "Current" doesn't necessarily mean "new" or "latest", by the way.

Oh goody. Well, the majority of the TV's still in service worldwide are 4:3 CRT SDTV's, so we can stop even talking about all this crazy newfangled HDTV crap, then. I can minimize huge shifts in markets and consumer demand with irrelevant statistics, too!

I mean, sure, I had one then, but that's because I'm a cheap bastard and always a bit behind the times as a result. Non-anamorphic DVDs may have passed critical muster in 1998, but not in 2006--not at all.

The GOUT was crap the day it was released, by the standards of the time. You couldn't even find a cheap porn title that was released in 2006 as a non-anamorphic DVD.

Your text here has to do with disappointment, not with objective quality.

Yeah, because non-anamorphic disks failing to scale decently on the new TV's people were buying in droves isn't objective. At least you didn't ask if I was on the rag. Buh bye, Mr. Objective.