Obviously it seems that they are cutting out parts of the actual picture. But I'm not sure they are true pan & scan. For instance, take the movie Road House. While it's possible that some of the top/bottom of the picture was cropped, I don't think the sides were. If you watch the movie on television, there are scenes where the 4:3 television frame moves from one side of the widescreen picture to the other. This is not present on the DVD. I guess I don't know what I'm talking about, but since I haven't noticed the defect, I think I'll just keep the ones I have. Out of my 90 or so DVDs, only 3 are MGM.
Obviously it seems that they are cutting out parts of the actual picture. But I'm not sure they are true pan & scan. For instance, take the movie Road House. While it's possible that some of the top/bottom of the picture was cropped, I don't think the sides were. If you watch the movie on television, there are scenes where the 4:3 television frame moves from one side of the widescreen picture to the other. This is not present on the DVD. I guess I don't know what I'm talking about, but since I haven't noticed the defect, I think I'll just keep the ones I have. Out of my 90 or so DVDs, only 3 are MGM.