Posted by trotsky on 10/21/05 02:17

moviePig wrote:

>
> 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


Wouldn't green ink be a lot simpler?

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