(12-15-2016 03:20 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  The worst were DVD's of movies made in 1994-95 or so. Because they would be widescreen but not 'anamorphic.' I have a couple of those now, True Lies is one, and I think The Rock, where they are letterbox, but not made for widescreen TV's.

Yes, you'd have to look on the back of the DVD box and check to see if it was anamorphic or not because in the early days, as you said, not all were.

Another thing about that late 90s era of home theater: They actually made some 'regular' 4:3 ratio TVs that had a switch on them that allowed them to display anamorphic DVDs correctly and get that extra resolution out of them. I almost bought one but I just thought the 16/9 TV looked cooler, LOL.

(12-15-2016 03:44 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(12-15-2016 03:13 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  But nope, I got out of the Home Theater game a good 8 years ago. All I have now are three 1080P TVs circa 2009, the largest 62". I did have a 1080P projector, threw a party and watched the 2011 Super Bowl on it and blew people away with its 120" HD picture, but my ex-wife got that in the divorce later that year and I never got another.

A whole different life now, LOL.

An expensive game, no doubt. I still have the same 40" 1080p LCD that I bought in 2008. Recently was given a 2006 version of the same model, as a friend got it for free with the house he bought and didn't need it. It put it in my home gym, ha!

(12-15-2016 03:20 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  The worst were DVD's of movies made in 1994-95 or so. Because they would be widescreen but not 'anamorphic.' I have a couple of those now, True Lies is one, and I think The Rock, where they are letterbox, but not made for widescreen TV's.

Are you talking about 2.35:1 movie screen aspect ratio? Which would be something like 21.15:9

No they were 16:9. But it's like when you see an ESPN broadcast on an HDTV but on a non HD channel, where is in letterbox, but not formatted correctly.