Explain how this is so....any time you zoom in on a picture, you lose resolution. Because the source material for our SW DVDs is not the original film - we are essentially "zooming" in on the picture - whether it be by using the TV electronics or DVD mastering software. We are, in effect, attempting to fill in the empty space. What we know of as an anamorphic DVD (which is technically incorrect, but that's another debate completely) takes the original film source and squeezes it into the same frame space. There's a tremendous difference between stretching something out to fill in space (4x3 to anamorphic), and having to squeeze something into that same space (film to anamorphic).
And why would an 8x8 compression artifact of a visual glitch be any bigger or smaller than any other 8x8 block of visual information? Everything is being enlarged when you zoom in - errors and all. (This is why I don't intend to make either version, much less the anamorphic version, until I've corrected such visual errors, but Combustion is giving me problems.
)"Bit of a long post this....Sad to read you are ditching the anamorphic widescreen version"
Read carefully, I meant this only in regards to the MPEG samples - not for the final MPEG of the entire film. Sorry you had to type all that.
(BTW, are you the same BentMyWookie from TF.n?)
"MeBeJedi is bowing to the demands of both groups of people"
I bow to NO ONE - KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!!
"so even though I think the 16:9 is silly I say "great work".
Heck, it's not even work - I just change a few settings and recompile. It's really no big deal. So many people on the internet just don't get anamorphic anyways, and I figured have both versions would solve a lot of hassle. As much as people ohh and ahh about Dr. Gonzo's "anamorphic" version, his picture is VERY soft and lacks considerable color (though I believe the color is due to the version he used, as I have that same LD.)