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What he's saying is that it won't be anamorphic, which means there will be fewer non-black pixels on the screen than if it were anamorphic. He's not complaining about black bars, he's complaining about lousy encoding.

Yeah. On a large-screen 16:9 television set, the difference between an anamorphic DVD and a regular letterbox DVD is like night and day. The anamorphic transfers (even transfers of 2.35:1 material that still has black bars) are orders of magnitude better than a letterbox transfer. Zooming a letterbox transfer to fit the 16:9 screen looks so awful in comparison that I flatly refuse to buy movies that are encoded that way.
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Tony Fabris