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I know Ken said this but I still wouldn't change something that needs to be verified and you can only verify the aspect ratio when you have the DVD. I don't think Ken's comment can be used in this case.

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Whether I 'own'd  the dvd or if I rented/borrowed or downloaded it.. The aspect ratio was a no brainer.. 1:85 on the box,, 1:85 per various websites/ 1:85 per some of the Invelos data per all the Localities in the world.., Hi DEF Cable broadcast was 1:78 and to me on my 16x9 TV a perfect 1:78 fit.. So what did I do wrong again..?  Oh Yeah, I didn't have ownership of the movie.. .

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As has been said, several times, Gadgeteer did what you did not...measured the actual picture size.  While I don't like it, I don't care that you contributed to profiles you don't own.  My problem is that you made changes without personally verifying that the change was correct.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT IS "LETTERBOXING" (LETTERSHLOCKING)?

"Letterboxing" is the vile practice of censoring movies on video and broadcast television or cable by blocking the top and bottom of the television screen with black bars so that you cannot watch or enjoy the movie. Letterboxing"/Lettershlocking censorship ignores the fact that the television screen is a different shape than the movie screen, so that the movie must be correctly formatted to fit the television screen.

2. WHAT IS "WIDESCREEN"?

"Widescreen" is the same thing as "letterboxing"/lettershlocking. The term is used as propaganda to actually suggest that these censored renditions of the films are somehow better, preferable, superior. Further, the term itself is an absolute lie. The width of the television screen, obviously, is a fixed physical dimension. The image presented in lettershlocked "widescreen" garbage is the same width as any other television image. The top and bottom of the screen, rather than containing an image, is now blocked by black bars so that no image at all appears there. This is why a more accurate term than "widescreen" would be "cutscreen" or squashed screen. In widescreen/lettershlocked garbage, the image is squashed down small between the black bars so that it pretends to look like a movie screen even though the tv screen has different dimensions. While no part of the original movie image is cut or blocked by lettershlocking/widescreen, the black bars do block a portion of the television screen. This is wrong, and prevents anyone from watching or enjoying the film.. 99.999999999999% of the viewing public recognizes this for the atrocity it is. Yet the advocates of this want to take away your right to watch and enjoy movies on video, broadcast tv and cable, by pushing this lettershlocking on us. They can and must be stopped. They will be. The twenty-first century will be a totally lettershlock-free time! FREEDOM!

3. WHAT CAN WE DO?

To preserve our right to watch and enjoy movies on video and television, we can:

Write, email, and phone cable channels and video companies, strongly objecting to lettershlocked garbage being broadcast or marketed. Tell them that we want fullscreen images in which the movie image fills the entirety of the tv screen.
Write, email, and phone cable providers to strongly object to paying money for cable channels which broadcast lettershlocked garbage that we can't watch or enjoy. Cancel cable channels that broadcast such garbage and do not patronize video rental stores which market such junk.
Tell the FCC and your congresspeople that we DON'T want HDTV with its different dimensions and tell electronics stores that we DON'T want DVD players with their built in letterboxing/lettershlocking censorship function.
Investigate legal mechanisms to challenge lettershlocking as disability discrimination against the visually impaired, such as the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, IDEA, and state and local anti-discrimination statutes and ordinances. Write to the FCC to object to license renewals for broadcast stations that broadcast such garbage.
Speak out everywhere against lettershlocking!
Celebrate August 13 each year, Alfred Hitchcock's birthday as International End Letterboxing/Lettershlocking Film Censorship Day.
Lettershlocking will end! Film censorship will be defeated! HDTV will become the Betamax of the late 90's. DVD disks with lettershlocking will become the 8-tracks of the late 90's. FULLSCREEN FOR ME! BAN THE BARS! CANCEL HDTV BEFORE IT BEGINS! LETTERSHLOCKING IS WRONG! IT WILL END!

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