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Ahh, ok, so the crux of the matter is that there are several "wide screen" formats. That's the "problem" so to speak. In a perfect world, HDTV would have been exactly the same ratio as every single movie out there, and every single movie out there would be in the same ratio that everyone agreed...

Okay, okay, sorry, I didn't mean to offend the purists here. My point was severalfold: One, if a movie has the black bars on the top and bottom, then you are not getting a full 1080 (or 720, if that's all your TV is capable of, as is mine) lines of picture. I'm not sure of the actual number...

Why do so many movies (BD or HD) have black bars at the top and bottom? I want my whole TV used, not just the middle section. I understand they want to provide the original theatrical aspect ratio, but I want a 1080p movie, not 3/4 of that.