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Posted by Joshua Zyber on 01/09/07 13:02
"M.I.5" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> The major studios do not release new titles in non-anamorphic
>> letterbox format. They just don't. Your insistence that the Dead
>> Man's Chest DVD is in this format is borderline delusional. You're
>> clearly misunderstanding the readout on your DVD player.
>>
>
> Well that's what thought to start with and they certainly claim that
> they don't. Which is why I copied the .VOB file without the .IFO file
> and played that. It is clearly in letterbox.
>
> I would post a frame grab if it wasn't for the fact that binary
> attachments are verbotten.
Upload it to the www and post a link here.
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pirates-Caribbean-Dead-Mans-Chest/dp/B000IHZ4F6/sr=8-1/qid=1168299841/ref=pd_ka_1/202-0832938-4850212?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
>>
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> That looks very much like the edition that I have.
If you bought a legitimate copy in the UK, that is the edition you have.
Disney has only released the one edition.
> I'm afraid, I'm becoming very cynical about this because Sky have
> clearly degraded their transmissions from just before Christmas.
> Their digital quality was marginally better than Freeview, but now it
> is very noticeably worse (and Sky deny that anything has changed).
> Their output contains advertisements for their HD service that are
> clearly better than their standard output (are people really taken in
> by this?). Their early HD adverts actually caused problems with some
> Sky boxes as the artificially lower MPEG compression caused problems
> (with Pace Sky+ boxes being particularly badly affected). The adverts
> naturally only contain slow moving material designed to compress well.
And this has what relevance to our discussion?
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