Posted by kim on 05/21/07 21:50

"ThePunisher" <thepunisher@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> POD {ҿ�} wrote:
>> "ThePunisher" <thepunisher@ntlworld.com> once tried to test me. I ate
>> their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>>
>>>> Most of them did. Remember 16:9 didn't happen in the US until HDTV
>>>> came about.
>>>
>>> And? here, in the UK widescreen TVs were on sale before dvds were.
>>
>> And? Criterion is a US company, why should they care about UK TVs?
>
> What region were Criterion dvds?

The early titles were recycled from NTSC laserdisc masters which were only
ever distributed in North America. That is why there was no anamorphic
enhancement. Even that fails to explain the lack of 5.1 audio on RoboCop as
it was already standard on laserdisc at the time.

(kim)

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