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RE: Blu-Ray, letter boxing and zoom

Jimmy,

I am not sure I get why you bought a Blu-Ray player to begin with.
One reason, after all, is the picture quality, and integral to that is a disc where the film is mastered and shown in its correct aspect ratio.

You want to achieve two things at once, if I understand you correctly:

1.You want to ruin the original composition of the film you are viewing by chopping the sides off the wide-screen images to "fill" the screen.

2.You want to compromise the inherent extra resolution of a Blu-Ray disc by artificially zooming it in.

Again, why didn't you just stick with your regular, zoomable DVD player, where you could 'compensate for the retardation' to your heart's delight?

Speaking of which, I wish you would have had a chance to convey your feelings to the likes of Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola or David Lean regarding their self-indulgence in choosing a wide frame for their films. It would have been a lively discussion.

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