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A very pleasant thought occurred to me today re: BD.

post #1 of 10
3/19/10 at 3:39pm
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I was browsing the BD aisles at Best Buy today and it suddenly hit me that there have been no panned and scanned releases of films on the format so far.

This made me very happy.
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post #2 of 10
3/19/10 at 5:06pm

Though it would seem pretty silly for studios to issue pan-and-scan product specifically manufactured for use with wide-screen HD monitors, I'd hold off betting against it until after Disney finally decides to start releasing their live-action catalog titles -- the second tier ones like the Dean Jones comedies, etc .  

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post #3 of 10
3/19/10 at 6:47pm
There's still the possibility of cropping or open-matte jobs on 2.35:1 films someday. Early in the DVD days, there was relatively few MAR only or standalone releases. Although, actually it seems like MAR standalone releases on DVD has dramatically declined as well.
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post #4 of 10
3/20/10 at 6:45am
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Originally Posted by WillG View Post

There's still the possibility of cropping or open-matte jobs on 2.35:1 films someday. Early in the DVD days, there was relatively few MAR only or standalone releases. Although, actually it seems like MAR standalone releases on DVD has dramatically declined as well.

You see cropping of 2.35:1 films to 1.78:1 all the time on the HDTV channels, so I could see this happening on BD, too.

Also, didn't the Blade films get released in this cropped manner on BD in Canada?
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post #5 of 10
3/20/10 at 7:47am
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Originally Posted by Scott Merryfield View Post

You see cropping of 2.35:1 films to 1.78:1 all the time on the HDTV channels, so I could see this happening on BD, too.
 

 

Lots of on demand films are shown this way which is ridiculous.  I'm considering cutting back on cable, since I get a much better HD experience from discs I buy & rent.   Most of the on demand HD movies are cropped or have big network logos in them (or both).  

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post #6 of 10
3/20/10 at 7:53am
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The main reason I started this thread was to observe that cropping on BD hasn't happened as of this message. Whether it will in the future remains to be seen but I'm just glad that shit has been kept off of the format thus far.

I hear ya about HD OnDemand channels, I made the mistake of ordering the remake of The Stepfather a few weeks ago and imagine my anger when I looked it up on IMDB afterward and saw in it's spec that it was supposed to be 2.35:1 when OnDemand showed it at 1.78:1.

I'll never do that again.
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post #7 of 10
3/20/10 at 7:56am
I believe the blu-ray release of Traitor was 1.78:1 when the theatrical release was 2.35:1. That's basically pan and scan.
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post #8 of 10
3/20/10 at 10:30pm
There's a Blu-Ray disc of the animated "Gulliver's Travels", which is supposed to be in 4x3, cropped and/or stretched to 16x9.
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post #9 of 10
3/21/10 at 11:32am
There are some examples that were opened up from their 2.35:1 ratio, such as the Alliance release of Se7en (hopefully that won't become a trend). And the first season of Justice League, which should've been in 1.78:1 but was still in the old 1.33:1 ratio, while it would have made much more sense to release it in widescreen.
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post #10 of 10
3/24/10 at 11:56am
reason why there aren't is because most people aren't going to run out and buy a Blu-Ray player for their 4:3 CRT... that's what they have DVDs for =P.

though you will hear complaints about 'black bars' still. what i fear most is studios 'zooming in' on 2.4 scope films just to fill the 'black bars'. *sigh*. but thankfully that is not a trend. i believe the import Blu-Ray of Blade1 (snipes) is such a case.

the problem or enemy of blu-ray is DNR and the exclusion of lossless audio!
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