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A better example is the scene in TESB when the Imperial Fleet moves into the asteroid field. Vader and Piett are viewing transmissions from 3 fleet vehicles and the commander on the far left cannot be seen in the P/S version, which nullifies the part of the scene where his ship is destroyed and his transmission breaks up.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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Or, how about in Empire when the Hoth Soldier is looking through his binoculars at the AT-AT and it's compressed side to side so the Walker looks excessively tall and thin? Example of when Pan & Scan wouldn't work and they knew it, but still needed the whole picture.
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Yep. I remember renting Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story on VHS and the scene of Bruce's dream where he discovers his own tombstone was letterboxed. I was pleasantly surprised.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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Just that scene, though? Had to be a bit disorienting.

Good flick.
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Sequel that should never be:

StarWars Holiday Special.

Episode 2: Lumpy Strikes Back.

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Or, how about in Empire when the Hoth Soldier is looking through his binoculars at the AT-AT and it's compressed side to side so the Walker looks excessively tall and thin? Example of when Pan & Scan wouldn't work and they knew it, but still needed the whole picture.


this happened in 1776 as well. At the end as the founding fathers are signing the Declaration Of Independence, in order to get all of them into the final shot of the movie in full screen, they make them look very tall and thin. They look as though they were walking on stilts! Now, I don't know about you, but I don't believe the founding fathers were walking on stilts as they signed the Declaration Of Independence.

other movies that look terrible in full screen

Benhur. (the Heston version)
The Music Man.
A League Of Their Own.
The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Planet Of The Apes
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

and there are many others.
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Back to the Future looks all right. On the 1986 VHS release, at least.

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Sequel that should never be:

StarWars Holiday Special.

Episode 2: Lumpy Strikes Back.


I'll make it
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It will be just like that tape on The Ring...

If we watch it, we'll randomly die several days later.

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Why can't you just swap it? Nobody would know the difference, would they? It's just a little band on the top that says widescreen or full screen. If she didn't know enough to pick one versus the other, the odds are pretty slim that she would notice if you swapped it for a different one.

She lives in the states and we live in England, so swapping it would mean sending it to either her or an American friend to swap it for me, so I think I'm stuck with it. Maybe one day I'll pick up a widescreen copy for cheap and discreetly dispose of the full screen version when the wife isn't looking.

War does not make one great.

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It will be just like that tape on The Ring...

If we watch it, we'll randomly die several days later.

Except we will choose to die by our own hands because of the horrors of watching Lumpy striking back.

War does not make one great.

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She lives in the states and we live in England, so swapping it would mean sending it to either her or an American friend to swap it for me, so I think I'm stuck with it. Maybe one day I'll pick up a widescreen copy for cheap and discreetly dispose of the full screen version when the wife isn't looking.


Okay, yeah, I can see where the problem might occur.
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He could return it saying: "Oh, my DVD player is region 2, and this disc is region 1, maybe you could change it for me? And by the way, since you'll do it, could you uh... I don know... get a widescreen version? Thanks."
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HaHaHa. Yeah, I might try that one. I'll have to send back all the crappy romantic comedies she's sent over for my wife too under the same pretense.

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He could return it saying: "Oh, my DVD player is region 2, and this disc is region 1, maybe you could change it for me? And by the way, since you'll do it, could you uh... I don know... get a widescreen version? Thanks."


Yeah, but she lives in the U.S. She'll never find a Region 2 DVD for sale here in the States via standard retail outlets. They just don't sell them here. Just like you can't find region-free DVD players here. Everything for sale is strictly Region 1. That excuse wouldn't work and would likely just confuse the hell out of her.
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Really, not even region-free? Over here you'll find region 4 DVDs and region-free (zero) DVDs, usually the cheap ones or the musical ones (like live concerts) are region-free. Also, there are some imports, mostly DVDs not found here (usually region 1 or 2).
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It will be just like that tape on The Ring...

If we watch it, we'll randomly die several days later.

Except we will choose to die by our own hands because of the horrors of watching Lumpy striking back.


such a great idea
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Those acronyms mean nothing to me. Might as well be jargonese.

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Someone here can obviously tell it better than I can, but 'regions' were created for dvd players so that the media played on it would come from that particular region or market. It's a way to keep income in-house. For instance, say all dvd players in the US could play dvds from anywhere in the world. Theoretically, everyone in the US could import their dvds from someplace else for cheaper than they could get them here. So, the manufactures are lobbied by retailers to encode their dvd players so that they will only play dvds that were specifically destined for North America, thereby keeping the money spent on them in the north american economy, rather than it going to Asia, Europe ect.
40,000 million notches away
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But you can buy region free players or set up your computer to accept other region DVDs using certain programs.

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Chaltab is a little slow though, Wookie.
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