Posted by Nick Macpherson on 10/20/05 12:33

Derek Janssen wrote:
> moviePig wrote:
> >
> > Jay G. wrote:
> >
> >> Black Locust <bl2112@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Widescreen DVDs spread - Along with wider TV sets
> >>> By Susanne Ault
> >>>
> >>> A representative of specialty retailer Tower reports noting an uptick
> >>> of about 5% in widescreen purchases over the past year, though the
> >>> broadest releases such as Buena Vista Home Entertainment's Oct. 4
> >>> Cinderella still sell 75% in fullscreen versions.
> >>
> >> Actually, in the speicifc case of Cinderella, 100% of the purchases are
> >> "fullscreen", as the 4:3 ratio is the original movie ratio of the
> >> film, and
> >> thus the only option available on DVD.
> >
> > Not at all. For us "connoiseurs", there's a version with *four* black
> > bars...
>
> Yes, but the article citing was to be meant in the traditional a.v.d
> spirit of "Why won't Warner release the widescreen 'Gone With the
> Wind'?--Sign my petition!" ;)
>
Stanley Kubrick preferred 4:3 to widescreen but if he was alive today
he'd realize he was wrong so we need the Kubrick DVDs re-released in
widescreen no matter what his family says.

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