[opendtv] Re: 70th Anniversary Blu-ray and standard DVDs of the Wizard of Oz

  • From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:55:02 -0400

Stessen, Jeroen wrote:
Hello,

First of all, the "Goofy Movie" was a 4:3 DVD, one of a very few
that I own. If I had looked better, I would not even have bought it.
Thinking back, it is amazing that I could watch it in 21:9 at all,
without a too apparent vertical cropping or horizontal distortion.
It should have displayed with side pillars, like when I had put it
in the BR player. I still don't understand what went "wrong" ?
(I write "wrong", because I actually liked it this way, full-screen.)

Here are two charts. The first lists all the aspect ratios used for film.
http://www.film-center.com/formats.html

The second chart lists all the aspect ratios of films available on DVD.
Note that the number of 4:3 films on DVD is greater than the number of ALL those in *other aspect ratios*.
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/DVDs/AspectRatios/

Cliff


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