I haven't seen vey many non-anamorphic releases for several years now. They do come around on ocxcassion but they are rare inded, just as anamorphic was a rare animal 10 years ago. I have yet to see a non-anamorphic DVD in a BD Combo and I just did Race to Witch Mountain yesterday. Just as with some other pieces of data, we have some users who haven't a clue and their data winds up having to be changed, for example I just was forced to change to films from USHE to USHV...it's right there on the cover, plain as day but there ya go. Or the one s that say Twentieth Century Fox instead of Twentieth Century-Fox, I think courtesy of the actions of a few users we have some others who are trying to force their VERSION of what the data should be instead of what it really IS.

But I have yet to see a non-anamorphic film released in a BD Combo.

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So I would imagine then that 1:33 ratios are also anamorphic??  If so how come?  is it the built in black pillars that would then give a 1:78 image ?? and if that is the case  wouldn't the newly ratio to your 16 x9 tv is now 1:78 from 1:33 ..  ???

It couldn't be done anyway as I believe a lot of viewers are today still using their 4x3 TV's bigscreen or small for their BlueRay hookup.. there fore they would get a 4:3 image with black pillars on eachside ..

But was just wondering if some company down the road would eventually consider that we all have 16x9 TV's one day and they may start inserting the image in between 'two pillars'  for a 1:78 ratio ... 

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I don't think you are going to find a 1.33 anamorphic, i have never seen one.

I have. Strangely, the 50-minute making of-documentary on various R2 DVD versions of 'Santa Claus: The Movie' is presented like that (not sure whether the same issue occurs in other regions). From an on-line review (here):

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"The only real downside to this documentary is its presentation on disc: it's encoded as anamorphic pillarboxed widescreen, with black areas at the left and right sides of the screen. This is more than a little infuriating to those with 4:3 televisions. If a programme is made in 4:3 format, there's no point presenting it in anamorphic format: this will only result in reduced picture resolution. It should have been encoded in 4:3."

Spaceballs

The dvd version that comes with it is the same as the disc in the original release (upc: 027616810021). Double sided. includes widescreen on one side, pan and scan on the other, the widescreen is non-anamorphic (it's the reason I replaced this movie with the blu-ray version).

I also just double checked and put the dvd in my dvd player and I get black bars on all four sides of the movie.

-Agrare

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Spaceballs

The dvd version that comes with it is the same as the disc in the original release (upc: 027616810021). Double sided. includes widescreen on one side, pan and scan on the other, the widescreen is non-anamorphic (it's the reason I replaced this movie with the blu-ray version).

I also just double checked and put the dvd in my dvd player and I get black bars on all four sides of the movie.
-Agrare

Bit confused on this post,, your're saying the BD disc is not anamorphic?  or the flipper is is not anamorphic, which I could see..,,,  ??

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Quoting Agrare:

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The dvd version that comes with it is the same as the disc in the original release (upc: 027616810021). Double sided. includes widescreen on one side, pan and scan on the other, the widescreen is non-anamorphic (it's the reason I replaced this movie with the blu-ray version).

Bit confused on this post,, your're saying the BD disc is not anamorphic?  or the flipper is is not anamorphic, which I could see..,,,  ??

He says that the DVD is non-anamorphic.

He doesn't have to say it about the BD, because it is a given fact that it is non-anamorphic.


cya, Mithi

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The industry uses both Anamorphic and 16:9, it's not Profiler, Buddy. And they have used for over 10 years now, I understand what you are saying, but your beef isn't with profiler.

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