I know there are lots of Home Theater saavy individuals that frequent this list.

Recently, Warner Brothers has decided to make all 'Family' films Pan & Scan, or Open Matte. meaning the films are being edited or cropped to fit an NTSC standard television with a ratio of 4:3

However. All of those big, fancy, HDTV & Projection screens you all know and love are 16:9, just like the movie theaters. There is also a feature called 'anamorphic' (aka 'enhanced for 16x9') which doubles the lines of resolution on the newer televisions.

Warner has decided that the average 'family' hates widescreen, or letterboxed films and has decided to stop releasing 'family' films (recent titles include the much anticipated ***** Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Cats & Dogs) thus releasing them edited for television, or open matte in the case of ***** Wonka (meaning it was filmed 4:3, but projected through a matte at the theater. If you watch, you can actually see things like the air pump in the blueberry violet scene, etc) that were filmed but known to be matted out in the theaters.

So, if you are like me and enjoy watching the movies as they were intended, and don't want a distributor deciding to edit (aka censor) the original content because people don't understand how movies are filmed, please sign the petition.

Who knows if it will do any good, but still, it's worth a shot. I for one will not order anything that is not 16x9 & Anamorphic unless it is a TV Program that was shown 4x3.<ul><li><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/wdvdx/petition.html">http://www.petitiononline.com/wdvdx/petition.html</a</li></ul>

 

even better is the live chat with WB on HTF in October. Gonna be bloody.

 

I have it on DVD already. But now that you mention it I dont remember if it is widescreen or not. Is this going to be another "Special Edition" release?

 

Then it'll be widescreen if you want it widescreen and 4:3 if you want 4:3. My DVD player can do this, surely most DVD players can do it, but I have yet to find a DVD that has the Pan&Scan info encoded.

 

SE with remastered video & sound. People are going liek mad trying to find the old one.

 

That's the question we've all been asking. DVD18 format allows for this, lots of studios do it..

 

Like many WB releases, it's WS on one side, P&S on the other...