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and approx. 1.66:1 (the forgotten ratio) ;)

It does in mine. For example, just last Saturday, I watched In Her Shoes, a 2.35:1 (Super35) film that I enjoyed a lot, and I liked the wide compositions, despite being a character-driven movie (or a chick flick, depending on your point of view ;) ). BTW picture was incredibly life-like (hint...

I hope you're right. But I'm not so sure. If at HBO they consider cropping is a good idea for broadcast HD, who's to say they won't think the same for discs? All it takes is an executive with a misguided notion of what to give to the public.

As more and more people buy HDTVs, I'm afraid we'll see once more the tendency to cater to the public's desire to fill their (wide)screens. We've seen it already with DVD and broadcast, so we can't assume it won't happen with HD DVD or Blu-ray. Let's try to analyse the different classes of...