Posted by Joshua Zyber on 01/09/07 13:15

"Joshua Zyber" <joshzyber@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "M.I.5�" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>> The major studios do not release new titles in non-anamorphic
>>> letterbox format. They just don't. Your insistence that the Dead
>>> Man's Chest DVD is in this format is borderline delusional. You're
>>> clearly misunderstanding the readout on your DVD player.
>>
>> Well that's what thought to start with and they certainly claim that
>> they don't. Which is why I copied the .VOB file without the .IFO
>> file
>> and played that. It is clearly in letterbox.

It occurs to me that you've noticed that this movie is presented in a
2.35:1 aspect ratio. Which means that, while the DVD is anamorphically
encoded, it still has black letterbox bars above and below the 2.35:1
movie image to fill the 16:9 anamorphic video frame. I bet you're
confusing this into believing that the disc is non-anamorphic.

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