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Posted by Richard C. on 03/23/06 22:36
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"Jack" <jack@jack.com> wrote in message
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>I just rented "2010: The Year We Make Contact," which was billed as a 2-
> sided DVD with 4:3 (pan & scan) or widescreen options.
>
> I ended up watching the 4:3 side since the "widescreen" was only the width
> of the standard view with much less height. My DLP projector reveals every
> pixel so nothing gets downsampled or overlooked. On 4:3 TV sets people may
> not notice the difference if the "widescreen" version plays full width.
> Surely they aren't counting on that in most cases?
>
> This is a 116 minute movie and I don't know why they couldn't have stored
> a
> max-res widescreen version on one side, unless it has something to do with
> layer transparency/interference?
>
> I have seen "mini widescreen" on a few other cheap-label DVDs that I
> didn't
> expect to be high quality. I have also seen it used for intro titles,
> whereafter the movie switched to either true widescreen or 4:3. Is this a
> known scam of sorts?
>
> Jack
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Are you talking about "non-anamorphic" widescreen?
If so, just zoom................
Anamorphic is the only way to go, however.
I do not understand why they even allowed non-anamorphic in the DVD
standard.
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