Posted by moviePig on 10/20/05 19:58

Nick Macpherson wrote:

> 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.

Whoa... didn't he make the studio sign an oath in bile that EYES WIDE
SHUT would *never* hit video in other than 4:3? (If not, what am I
thinking of...) Odd, of course, since his magnum opus (imo) 2001:ASO
was one of the first movies in Super-Panavision's 2.85:1 ... vs. today's
norm of 2.35:1 ... (all facts unchecked, btw...)

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