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#40582
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Star Wars Pan Scan
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Originally posted by: starkiller
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There are some movies where it doesn't really matter.
Indeed there are.

Go get the movie The Sting. I don't think they even offer pan-and-scan vs. widescreen. My parents bought it on DVD, and we almost sent it back, because we wanted to widescreen version.
Turns out it was filmed in 4:3, or something close to it.


It was shot open matte, which means that a fullframe version of this is truly fullframe; you see everything the director shot. I still would like to see a widescreen version that takes full advantage of DVD's resolution.
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#40581
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Star Wars Pan Scan
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Here's the simple explanation of why Lucas allows the OT to be released in P/S: studio pressure. It has been Fox's policy to offer both Widescreen and Fullscreen versions of all its hot releases for a couple of years now. When the film is short enough, they'll put them on the same disc; when it isn't, they'll opt for dual releases. Since Fox is handling the OT, even if Lucas does not want to offer both, he does anyway. As John Carpenter put it in the commentary on The Fog, "Let the idiots have their pan and scan."
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#40486
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BaseBall talk
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The only professional sports venue in Edmonton that still has its original name is Commonwealth Stadium (named after the 1978 Commonwealth Games, and home of the Eskimos). The Coliseum (home of the Oilers) is now called Rexall Place, and before that was called Skyreach Centre. The baseball field where the Edmonton Trappers (PCL baseball) play (until the end of the summer; they've been sold) is called Telus Field (after the telecommunications company).