Dave H
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NO OAR = NO SALE HERE!!!!
NO OAR = NO ROWING !!!
I'm confused as to why a studio that -presumably- is in the business of making money, would screw their potential customers this way.Easy... They don't have to do a new transfer for P&S. Saves 'em money on titles they don't think will be real big sellers anyway.
Sure wish they'd stop doing that, though.
It is very possible that they had to pan, scan, and zoom to remove mics, and anything else that shouldn't have been there.But again, pan and scan is when they add the left / right camera pans to a 2.35 widescreen film to fit in picture information, make the camera move during what was a steady shot. People who use that term when discussing a fullframe film are using it incorrectly.
Zooming in for a 1.85 isn't pan and scan. Pan and scan is a specific term.
So saying you won't buy a P&S or "pan and scam" title in this thread is using the term incorrectly since it doesn't apply to most of these films.
Pan and scan is a total reworking of the film, not just losing picture information. It is a lot different.
IF they have inherited the home video library of a defunct company, (as MUCH of their product roster seems to be) then they may not have the rights to the original negatives to make OAR/16x9 prints-and thus, have to settle for masters made previously.
They've acquired libraries of out of business companies before, yet they've made new widescreen transfers ("The Return of the Living Dead", "The Fog", "Escape from New York" and many many smaller titles.)
Besides that, if "Real Men" is open matte, why not have the director properly frame a new transfer for widescreen?