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Posted by Marcel on 10/18/05 06:17
Kimba W. Lion <kimbawlion@aol.com> wrote in
news:m447l19iactj984sjadcvdqj35erpfau70@4ax.com:
> "blackhole@aol.com" <blackhole@aol.com> wrote:
>>I would like to delete the wide screen movie and replace it with the
>>full screen movie (sorry purists) to have a fully working DVD.
>
> Since most movies these days are shot full-frame and masked to
> widescreen in the theater projector, your quest is not as outlandish
> as some faux-purists may wish to make it seem. (I don't know the
> specifics about this particular movie, however.)
Thanks for the honest reply, and that is exactly the case in these two
releases, the wide screen version is actually the full screen version,
cropped off, as I stated in my follow up reply to that nut case.
I'm sure this isn't the case with the earlier releases, and pan and scan
was needed. But I'm fairly certain now, especially after seeing this one
side by side, that it is probably the norm now for todays movies to do
this, in order to save the money on pan-and-scan editing later.
So it is actually the wide-screen viewers of today who are losing out on
film "real-estate".
I remember when DVDs first came out, they were promising that they would
always have "both" versions available on the same CD, so you could view
either one, depending which TV type you owned.
Obviously, that never happened.
> If I understand your complaint about your re-made disc, try this: when
> you go to play this movie, go into your player's setup and find the
> setting for TV type. Change it to 16:9 or widescreen or something like
> that and see how your movie looks. Naturally, you will have to change
> it back after you watch this disc, but it could work.
I will take your advice and try hand-authoring it again, and burning it
to a test DVD-RW to see if that works. I only noticed this artifact on my
computer with Power-DVD and believed it would do the same on my Phillips
DVP642.
> IF that's not satisfactory, perhaps it will help to take your problem
> to finer details. How is it that the extras on one disc are "broken"
> but the movie plays? Is the disc physically damaged? Could it be
> player incompatibility--that the disc will work on another player?
The extras on the broken disk were from the one I downloaded off one of
the cross-posted newsgroups here. I believe the original posted tried
compressing it to save the extras, but now it comes out as stuttered
images, so it probably is unsalvagable.
The wide screen one was from an original DVD borrowed from a library,
so it's menus work fine.
Interestingly, the wide screen version has all the xtras in full screen,
including that game on it. Go figure.
Marcel
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