Pan and Scan

[andrew_j_w]

Recently I brought Ellen the West Wing box set, and we've been working our way through the series. Last night we started watching series 3, which is the series where they switched to widescreen. No problem you think, widescreen is common on DVDs and with a nice big widescreen tv I should get a great picture. Rather than make the picture widescreen

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[lieutenanth]

Yeah, I hate that. Also that every single DVD release ever is in an ever-so-slightly different aspect ratio anyway, anywhere from 2.35:1 to 4:3. Why do film-makers choose between 1.78, 1.77, 1.7, etc? Argh. It makes me very angry!!!