Posted by Jack on 03/23/06 17:08

I just rented "2010: The Year We Make Contact," which was billed as a 2-
sided DVD with 4:3 (pan & scan) or widescreen options.

I ended up watching the 4:3 side since the "widescreen" was only the width
of the standard view with much less height. My DLP projector reveals every
pixel so nothing gets downsampled or overlooked. On 4:3 TV sets people may
not notice the difference if the "widescreen" version plays full width.
Surely they aren't counting on that in most cases?

This is a 116 minute movie and I don't know why they couldn't have stored a
max-res widescreen version on one side, unless it has something to do with
layer transparency/interference?

I have seen "mini widescreen" on a few other cheap-label DVDs that I didn't
expect to be high quality. I have also seen it used for intro titles,
whereafter the movie switched to either true widescreen or 4:3. Is this a
known scam of sorts?

Jack

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