HBO Please release DVDs in the Original Aspect Ratio (1 Viewer)

[Reginald Trent]

I want to buy Dorothy Dandridge and Disappearing Acts to name a few. However, I refuse because I do not believe they are not in OAR. Please release OAR DVDs in addition to the pan and scan versions.

 

[Jesse Skeen]

HBO has a lot of discs that are actually widescreen only, but not labeled as such as any way on the cover- I have Night Flier, Hitcher and Serial Mom which I bought only after finding out they were widescreen. Having once had the HBO cable channel a long time ago though, the name is something to be wary of.

 

[Dick]

THE CHANGELING and FORT APACHE, THE BRONX are also 1.85:1.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Dandridge was a TV movie as was the other.

 

[Matthew Kiernan]

Both of those films were made for TV. Their original aspect ratios are 1.33:1.

 

[Jay E]

Shadowlands & The Grifters are 2 more titles that are widescreen but don't say so on the cover.

 

[Ryan L B]

If they all were made for tv, why are some widescreen and some for Pan and Scan only

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

If they all were made for tv, why are some widescreen and some for Pan and Scan only

Not all of them were made for TV. Films like Serial Mom were released to theaters by Savoy Pictures or other film companies and were released onto video by HBO (that's why some titles are in widescreen).

 

[Ryan L B]

I know *61 and Wit did not come out in theaters and they are in widescreen.

 

[Chad Gregory]

*61 and Wit did not come out in theaters and they are in widescreen.

Both were produced for HD-HBO in 16x9 and 5.1 sound.

The future of "Made for TV"

 

[Bill J]

I am pretty sure that *61 DID come to a theater by me. I didn't go to see it so I could be wrong.

 

[Ryan L B]

So, does that mean that all new HBO movies are in widescreen. Also, I noticed that the new movies about slaves were in widescreen even on regular HBO, why. (I wish that they did this for all movies but why just these.)