Last year, something remarkable happened in the world of cinema. Blockbuster Video, the country’s dominant rental chain, announced that from that point on it officially preferred widescreen DVDs to ...

Someone introduced us to widescreen videos on VHS. These videos presented the full picture as you saw it in the theater, but did so on our 4:3 (non-widescreen) televisions. Later, DVD came along; ...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is expected to receive final approval this month to settle claims by at least 587 consumers who alleged they were misled into believing they purchased DVDs with widescreen ...

I hope this post will be redundant to most people, but I'm writing it because even after all this time, there seems to be some confusion. A few months back, I was in the electronics department of ...

I have a Sony 360 series DVD player, and a Panasonic 27" TV thats a few years old. When I play DVDs in widescreen mode they always are vertically stretched- kind of like that technique you would see ...

I don't understand this.<BR><BR>I hocked up my DVD player to my RCA HDTV (L26WD23) widescreen TV. I use Component cables for video. I set my DVD player to Widescreen.<BR><BR>When I play my Battlestar ...

One of the great Hollywood fables is that the 1930 Western epic “The Big Trail” was a box-office failure because of its young star, John Wayne. It definitely was a financial flop, but it wasn’t ...

Five years ago, TV producer Dick Wolf (Law & Order) tried something that no one around him thought he could pull off. He introduced a TV series, Feds, in what movie buffs call “widescreen” format: ...