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Post #95421

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The Dark One
Parent topic
The "EditDroid" Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
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Date created
5-Mar-2005, 12:57 AM
Thanks MeBe, it all makes sense now. I guess that I'm not quite "smarter than the average bear" when it comes to video formats.

I went ahead and set the DVD player on my 4:3 to 16:9 and lo and behold...the stretching distortion as described on the site you linked to.

So this has led me to another question...shouldn't all new transfers of the OT be in anamorphic seeing how the "powers-that-be" are pushing the 16:9 sets? Try finding a 4:3 set bigger than 32", they are almost as rare as 8-tracks nowadays.

Also, with the emergence of inexpensive DL DVD burners and media that is rapidly falling in price, wouldn't the preferred primary format for the new DL projects (fingers crossed) be 16:9 anamorphic? I'll put it this way, on my 32" 4:3 I can't see much difference between pretty much all of the better transfers, but on the 54" 16:9 the differences are very apparent.

Let me know if I'm off in left field somewhere, or if I'm heading in the right direction.

D.O.


EDIT: From here I'll move all of these questions to the "Letterboxed Widescreen vs. Anamorphic Widescreen Discussion" forum