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Yes, 1.78 is the full screen, 1.85 has small bars on the top and bottom and 1.66 has smallish bars on the sides.

Probably no worse than an optical track on a 35mm print.

I'm surprised but pleased that the original mono mix has been included. I wish the same had been done for The Shining.

But as was earlier mentioned, it explicitly says: I don't doubt that Kubrick preferred the full frame for video transfers at the time when all televisions were 4:3. I can also believe that he would have preferred 1.66, given that Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon were...

The Shining is 1.78 on the new blu-ray and 4K disc. It was 1.78 on the blu-ray released before that, and 1.78 on the DVD released before that, all transfers that were supervised by Vitali. So somewhere along the line, he changed his mind about it being 1.33 or 1.66.

Vitali supervised the new transfers for this and The Shining, so if he really believed Kubrick wanted these films to be viewed in Academy ratio, he could have had them presented that way. The fact that he didn't, suggests that his previous comments only applied to the older, NTSC masters.