DaViD Boulet
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anybody get the hobbit yet? when is it due? Let's hear a review!
-dave
-dave
Also, this is widescreen, but according to those screenshot, it is improperly framed at 1.78:1 rather than 1.85:1. Only an approximate 4 percent loss of horizontal image information, but still not in OAR. Warner did the same thing with Batman.
Don't worry, you're not losing any information. LOTR and Batman were both filmed open matte, so the DVD's are basically matted. It's only a .07 difference, and you'd just get a few more lines of resolution blocked off.
This is why these open matte films get a "This version is matted" line on the box. Super-35 films are panned & scanned differently as you can tell by the S-35 demo on the T-2: UE DVD.
I'm happy, however, that LOTR got the matted treatment...the anamorphic enhancing makes movies look so much better. I might get this with Fritz the Cat when MGM releases that disc.
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