“I think I actually answered you earlier. Are you cropping the left and right in addition to the top and bottom? You need to, because doing what you ask requires the sides to be lost.”

…Yes I am doing that.

“My obnoxiousness is a result of you acting like we wasted your time by giving you a version that wasn’t screwed up. You’re the very first person I’ve ever seen request something so messed up, but you claim that we are minimizing interest by doing it the way everyone wants it (correctly). Go on blu-ray forums and suggest similarly bad ideas and see just how unpopular your preference is. You might be nearly the only person who wants to watch films in this manner.”

…I’m certain there are lots of people who don’t like black bars on top and bottom. This is a matter of preference. Now if this file wasn’t letterboxed one could easily choose whether they want to see it wide or cropped - This would be optimal.
The downfall apparently would then be that then you couldn’t burn it on Blu-ray? I agree a BR should have all the material aka not cropped version… I simply didn’t realize that that’s what the torrent was all about, to burn it on Blu-ray rather than to keep it on HD and watch a couple of times.

“Your comments on the color are even less appropriate in this thread since the entire project is about changing the color of the release you’re complaining about.”

…Wait, so comments on colour correction are unwanted on forum about comments on colour correction. One learns something new every day…