Thread: Do All Blu-Ray Discs Cutoff Picture?

The point of widescreen is so you can see it how it was meant to be seen, I cant really see why they would cut parts off.

Originally Posted by Anonymous D

The point of widescreen is so you can see it how it was meant to be seen, I cant really see why they would cut parts off.

Yeah me neither, it seems quite ridiculous. Maybe they just want attention to be focused a bit narrower, but I don't know it just seems weird and I'm still hoping someone reads this who is an absolute guru and can tell me exactly what the deal is with this.

Originally Posted by Anonymous D

The point of widescreen is so you can see it how it was meant to be seen, I cant really see why they would cut parts off.

A handful of Mel Brooks' films were shot fullscreen and then cropped vertically to produce widescreen versions for DVD. A pretty fucking dumb move, but it has happened.

That said aside from animated features I doubt anything is shot in a fullscreen aspect ratio these days.