Re: What tv on dvd sets are "fake" widescreen?
Right on!

Personally, it distracts me because you spend way too much time noticing it, instead of paying attention to the story. It bothers me that they feel it necessary when it wasn't in the past, you could go anywhere in the world and movies would be looking quite similar, lighting and so forth, today you never know what you're gonna get. And that's a damn annoying position to be in. I can only conclude 'filters/post production tinkering' are used as an additional 'cool' special effect, like constantly watching the world through sunglasses. It's fake.