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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


The Digital Bits: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/


DVDReview: http://www.dvdreview.com/


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