Posted by Joshua Zyber on 01/20/06 00:27

"Jay G." <"Jay "@tmbg.org> wrote in message
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>> For what it's worth, the 1.78:1 re-framing was chosen by director
>> Andrew
>> Niccol.
>
> Can you cite where you got that information from? So far, I've found
> nothing on the web concerning the altered aspect ratio from either
> Lions
> Gate or Niccol.

I don't have a firm reference. That's what I had been hearing, but now
it's up in question again.

Side-by-side comparisons of the DVD with the movie's trailer supposedly
show that the DVD is more cropped than open-matte, so it does seem odd
that the director would want that.

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