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Really? I saw Galaxy Quest in the theatre but don't remember this at all (and I enjoyed that movie much more than The Horse Whisperer). So how is the first part framed on the DVD? Is the 1.85 cropped to 2.35? Or does it use black bars on the side? Oh, BTW, I don't think the screen should have...

I was doing some searching and stumbled across the glossary on Joe Kane's site, which has an entry on aspect ratio that was obviously written when the HD aspect ratio was still undecided. The entry says in part that "[t]he resolution of current display technology would suggest that 1.78 is the...

Money. At the time HDTV aspect ratios were being set, the consumer electronics companies balked at an 1.85 aspect ratio because the cost of manufacturing at that ratio was very high and not worth the incremental benefits. You gotta remember that the standard was set at a time when CRT was the...