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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skade" data-source="post: 752962" data-attributes="member: 3320">In a good Pan and Scan, there are a number of tricks that can be used by video editors to reduce the changes necessary to crop to the screen.  The editors do the best they can to preserve the film in those cases that cinematography really matters.  You also have to consider that multiple cameras could be used, to provide smaller framed shots for certain scenes.  Obviously some movies are just tossed together and forgotten about, but since Star Wars is one of the big examples being used, you can bet that Lucasfilm did the best they could to preserve the movies integrity.I am not personally a fan of Pan and Scan, but I must say that Mistwell has a point about the distance, and PnS on a "smaller" television.  Sometimes its just better to get the meat of the pic, and move on.  No point in going blind trying to see a 2 inch aragorn grappling an orc.  The other side of it is for you Widescreen fanatics, is that a movie in its original ratio is a beautiful thing, which once upon a time we could only fully experience by sitting in a theatre.  Now, we can do it at home with our progressive scan, DTS, THX certified DVD player and sound system, and our 1081i resolution big screens.  It sometimes looks better than the theatre.  Not everyone has that, and not everyone wants it.  Pan and Scan has its place, and I still own, and view both.  I still buy both, partially because I sometimes use the small TV in the office, or the garage.As to having both versions on a disc, it is more than possible.  Very few movies utilize the full capacity of their discs.  Even those Collectors Series 2 disc sets rarely fill a disc.  The only reason they come in 2 discs so often is for marketting.  The reason that multi versions sets wont come out on 2 discs is to prevent easy piracy.</blockquote>

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