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I am so glad I chose Sony over Panasonic when purchasing my Blu-ray players! I would really be pissed off if my BD player was cropping the image in any way.

Here you go: Screencaps at the Beev. While the captures from both releases measure 1.33:1 exactly. The Criterion has tiny black bars on the sides bringing the AR to about 1.312:1 and the EMS region 2 release has about 2 pixels of black bar at the top bringing the AR to about 1.338:1. Neither...

This thread has gotten ridiculous, mainly because Sam and Nick are arguing over semantics. Technically DVD is neither 16X9 nor 4X3. Native DVD resolution is 480 pixels by 720 pixels, which is (do the math) 1.5:1 (square pixels). If the material is flagged as 4X3 the pixels are squeezed. If the...

Glad to hear you found the culprit. Strange that the PS3 is doing the same thing which is why I thought the display was doing the cropping. I have 2 Sony Blu-ray players and neither of them crop 1.33:1 DVDs.

What do you have the HDMI output resolution of your player set to? 1080p or Original? In other words is the player doing the upscaling of your 480i DVDs or is the Display doing the upscaling? I have a funny notion that if you have the player do the upscaling to 1080p your problem will disappear.