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Enhanced for widescreen and anamorphic are the same thing. Essentially the image is compressed horizontally on an anamorphic DVD. A widescreen TV stretches it out again so that it looks normal. A DVD player will actually remove every fourth vertical line so that the image appears normal on a 4:3 TV. This of course, doesn't help the picture any on a 4:3 TV, although it doesn't usually hurt it too terribly either. On the other hand, an anamorphic DVD is noticably better than a non-anamorphic on a widescreen TV.


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