Posted by P Pron on 11/16/05 21:51

jayembee wrote:
|| "P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
||
||| NYC XYZ wrote:
||||| Hi, All:
|||||
||||| Seems like "Take the Money and Run" from Anchor Bay is out of
||||| print now! But the available MGM version is full-screen only???
|||||
|||||
||||| Please advise -- TIA!!!
|||
||| According to the excellent Mr Pratt -
||| http://www.dvdlaser.com/search/detail.cfm?id=2009 - the
||| letterboxing on the (non-anamorphic) Anchor Bay widescreen version
||| "masks picture information off the top and bottom of the image and
||| doesn't appear to add anything to the sides".
||
|| That's because the film was a matted widescreen to begin with. The
|| widescreen image is the way it was seen in theaters, and the
|| information masked off the top and bottom wasn't intended to be a
|| part of the picture,
||
||| So maybe the choice isn't quite so difficult after all....
||
|| You're right. It's not difficult at all: go for the widescreen
|| Anchor Bay release, if you can find it.
||
|| -- jayembee

Absolutely - it's only three times the price, on Amazon.com....

paul

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