Posted by Mr. Mike on 12/23/85 11:26

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:19:04 GMT, "Edward Holub" <edwardholub@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

>Somewhere I read that someone was complaining that the existing DVD
>version of Ben-Hur didn't have the aspect ration correct. The writer had
>hoped that the new version got it right.
> Any thoughts on this?

Like the widescreen laser disc, the image on the new release is VERY "wide." In
fact, if I shrink the image using my Toshiba player so that I can see the
absolute left and right in a window-box format, it measures at something like
2.97:1!!! (Does this make sense?) When viewing with the "default" image, it is
approximately 2.52:1.

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