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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I am a DVD fan and have recently purchased a 65 inch widescreen High Definition television. I love movies and have come up through the advances in technology from video tape, laser disc, and now DVD. I am amazed at how far we have come in reproducing clearer and clearer images on a television screen.I have replaced my laser disc collection with DVD's. Now, with my new TV I am finding myself replacing DVD's that are non anamorphic. Now that I know the difference, I look to make sure the DVD is anamorphic ("Enhanced for Widescreen TV's") or I won't buy it.
On July 14, 2003, I saw "2010 The Year We Make Contact" on DVD at the local Wal-Mart store in Orem, Utat. I looked closely to see it it has been enhanced for widescreen TV's. The back of the DVD had this: "STANDARD VERSION THIS FILM HAS BEEN MODIFIED AS FOLLOWS FROM ITS ORIGINAL VERSION IT HAS BEEN FORMATTED TO FIT YOUR SCREEN WIDESCREEN VERSION PRESENTED IN A LETTERBOX WIDESCREEN FORMAT PRESERVING THE 'SCOPE' ASPECT RATIO OF ITS ORIGINAL THEATRICAL EXHIBITION ENHANCED FOR WIDESCREEN TV'S." I purchased this DVD (along with three others),but when I played it I was disappointed to see that the widescreen side was standard and non anamorphic. On a widescreen 16X9 TV this gives a small letterboxed picture in the middle of the screen.
I am wondering if this was just a "one of a kind" mistake, or if all the "2010" DVD's are like this? Please let me know if there is a way I can replace this non anamorphic version with an anamorphic one.
I am anxious to hear from Wal-Mart or Warner Brothers regarding this matter.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ron Watson
wats@joimail.com
Follow Ups:
I had a similar experience. I bought a copy of (don't laugh) Johnny Mnemonic from Wal-mart several months ago. There were quite a few copies there of the full-screen version; however, I found one marked as both full-screen and wide-screen. It was cheap, so I went for it. Once I opened up the package, I could see it was a single side disc rather than a two sided one. Only the full-screen version was on the DVD. And does Wal-mart allow returns of opened media? Understandably, I don't think so.
It was a printing a mistake.2010 was a fairly early DVD release, from a time when anamorphic widescreen DVDs were not the norm.
And no you can't replace it because AFAIK there has been no anamorphic DVD release of 2010.
Sorry.
These mean the same thing: enhanced for widescreen TVs, anamorphic, 16x9 anamorphic, etc. What it means is that the entire movie image is "squeezed" when it's encoded onto the DVD. A widescreen TV will "unsqueeze" the image to properly display it. This can be done to any aspect ratio, such as 2.35:1, 1.85:1, 1.66:1, etc.The 2010 movie you purchased is listed as an anamorphic title. Since there is only one version available, this is the one you purchased. Due to the aspect ratio that this film was shot (2.35:1), even on a widescreen TV (16x9 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio display), there will be black bars.
However, there is about 30% more resolution in that area compared to a non-anamorphic 2.35:1 release. The only movies that will fill a widescreen TV are those either recorded with an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 or manipulated to that aspect ratio. Now, because of overscan in the display, most widescreen TVs will actually have their screens filled with movies that have a 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
Now, was 2010 really a non-anamorphic transfer and listed as anamorphic by mistake? That I don't know.
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