Rogers video Bruce Almighty - non-anamorphic??!! WTFrick!?!? (1 Viewer)

[Chris PC]

How is it possible to rent a DVD in this day and age from Rogers Video and find that it was non-anamorphic?? Un-believable. How is it possible for companies to release non-anamorphic DVD's? This is insane. I thought, I'll just pick up the widescreen copy and it'll be fine. What companies are still releasing non-anamorphic DVD's?

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

The USA release was widescreen and anamorphic-enhanced.

 

[Jonathan Dagmar]

Chris. What you are saying makes no sense. Bruce Almighty was widescreen anamorphic. Are you sure didn't mean to say it was pan and scan?

 

[Richard Travale]

It's anamorphic.

 

[Chris PC]

Nope. Playing it on my DVD player results in a stretched widescreen picture. In order to see it the proper aspect ratio I had to select 4:3 on my iScan Pro. This resulted in bars on the sides AND bars on the top. No other DVD I've ever viewed has done this except the ones I've known for a fact were non-anamorphic. I couldn't figure it out.

 

[ChristianB]

I have a copy of Bruce Almighty. It didn't rent it from Rogers but it's the same "version". I IS indeed anamorphic.

It appears that Universal changed the DVD packaging to no longer include that nice SPECS box they always did.

However, I did noticed that although the "Specs Box" is gone, the packaging does state:

Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1

I doubt Universal would release a non-anamorphic version

 

[Chris PC]

How is this possible then? I don't get it. I'll try it again but I've no idea how my DVD player and iSca Pro could take an anamorphic signal and send it non-anamorphic to my projector. I'll check everything by playing a "regular" anamorphic DVD

 

[Richard Travale]

This is odd. I wonder if Roger's had a deal with Universal to get cheap copies that were not enhanced anamorphically???

 

[Chris PC]

Doh! Big mistake. I screwed up. I had my DVD player set up wrong. I've never done this before. I had it set up to Pan & Scan because I had been watching a Full Screen movie and then a Pan & Scan movie. Renting screwed me up. Hahahahaha.
I should have known.

 

[CraigF]

I don't have this disc, but Uni has sometimes recently "hidden" their great specs box on the bottom edge of the case slipcover, if it has one, a place most people don't usually look.

I have read a few posts here recently about some anamorphic discs displaying like non-anamorphic ones in some systems, so you're not the only one who this has happened to, if it is indeed an anamorphic copy you have. I don't recall exactly what the problems turned out to be, but it was somehow related to DVD player and display device setup "fighting" with display options.

 

[Josh Simpson]

Glad to see you got it fixed. Oh the horror if that had been true.

 

[Tino]

So.....you were watching full screen movies and pan and scan ones too eh..???

The horror indeed!

 

[Richard Travale]

Glad to hear you got things straightemed out.