DVD

Click below to read my review on these discs I own. If clicking on it doesn't work, then it probably means I haven't reviewed it yet.

Personal Collection

All Thumbs: The Complete Collection	Aliens: Special Edition	And Now For Something Completely Different	ANTZ
Army of Darkness (2-Disc Set)	Braveheart	Dark City	Dilbert: The Complete Series
Fight Club	Gladiator	Independence Day	The Matrix
Milo and Otis	Monty Python's Flying Circus Set 1 (Discs 1 & 2)	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	Muppets from Space
The Red Violin	Wallace & Gromit: Their First Three Adventures	What Dreams May Come	What's Up, Tiger Lily?

What is "Anamorphic Widescreen"?

Anamorphic Widescreen is basically the standard that most new movies are being released (or re-released) in. It uses more of the available resolution for picture information instead of black bars. DVDs store information in a 4:3 aspect ratio, but many movies are in a widescreen ratio (1.85:1 or 2.35:1). Regular widescreen DVDs would draw a black boxes at the top and bottom of the screen and fill in the rest with the movie. Anamorphic widescreen uses the entire area for the image. But then, won't you see this stretched version when you watch an anamorphic widescreen on your regular TV? The DVD specification was actually designed with this feature, so all DVD players take anamorphic widescreen movies and squash them back down to the correct aspect ratio. That means instead of storing the black bars on the DVD, they store information, and you can see a better picture.

For a very extensive article about anamorphic widescreen, try:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/welcome.html

To check what movies are in Anamorphic Widescreen (by title), go to:
http://us.imdb.com/Sections/DVDs/PictureFormats/Anamorphic_Widescreen/

Links

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