I think the current version of the sting is open matte. not that it matters. there is another long thread were this is talked about. some think the movie may have been filmed with that ratio intended to appear as a movie from that time period or something to that effect. the current...
heh, certainly willing to take one for the team. wanted to have this anyway due to the theory by some that this was meant to be academy ratio from the beginning. and after i watch the tcm wide version i'll find it interesting to see what the 1.33.1 version looks like.
sean, i can see how what i wrote could be confusing. what it should have said was, i heard the f word several times in .....and justice for all, but other sections of dialogue were clearly muted. several times during the movie. and i have seen this before on tcm.
waldo pepper has been on hdnet movies during the last 6 months and it looked great. so there must be a good widescreen version for that so maybe it could be ported to dvd.
turner does not interrupt movies and they dont have paid advertisements, as far as i can tell. plus they do not edit any of the video portion of a movie but they do edit or mute some dialogue quite often. i was watching (for the first time) ....and justice for all, the other day and as i still...