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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 751537" data-attributes="member: 3570">Perhaps some of your incorrect information stems from watching VHS movies that were originally shot in Super 35, or "open matte".  The Matrix, Jurassic Park and Titanic are a few examples.  Its a "TV friendly" format where the filmmakers shoot a film with a 4:3 television aspect ratio with the intent to crop it to for display in movie theatres.  The "intended vision" and true shot composition is what's shown in the wider format, and sometimes things such as sound booms and such can be seen in the open matte format when its shown on TV, but its a choice some directors make to prevent their films from being butchered on TV and video.It should be noted that special effect sequences too expense to create only to be cropped for theatrical release are created for the widescreen format then Pan and Scanned for TV like a film normally would.You make it hard to claim you aren't ignorant when you believe that Star Wars shown in 4:3 ratio is FAR, FAR from being a 50% loss of a 2.35:1 ratio.  Sorry.  Do the math.  Its about half.  Maybe you shouldn't base your conclusions on half-ass DVD bootlegs.</blockquote>