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Posted by Joshua Zyber on 01/10/07 12:50
"M.I.5" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
news:45a49f27$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net...
> No, you missed the problem along the way somewhere. The disk was
> encoded in 4:3 with the 2.35:1 image in the middle with most of the
> area being black. The disk was somehow flagged to instruct the player
> to output this tiny image as analogue anamorphic video (I still can't
> find the flag in the DVD spec). The reason why I tumbled it was than
> my pioneer (I actually have 2), seems to ignore the flag and output
> the video information exactly as it appeared on the disk. It played
> in anamorphic on all my other players (a Panasonic, a Toshiba and a
> Kobe).
>
> However, as I posted above, it's all sorted now as HMV obligingly
> exchanged the disk for one that is clearly different, in that it works
> correctly.
In order for what you describe to have happened, Disney would have had
to master two completely different transfers for the movie, one
anamorphic and one non-anamorphic letterbox, and accidentally release
the one they never intended for any public distribution to DVD. The
difference between anamorphic and non-anamorphic is more than just a
misplaced flag. The data content of the movie image itself is different.
Do you honestly believe that's very likely? I sure don't.
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