Me too, but we all know it will never happen. Seamless branching is one thing (like how they completely failed with Beauty and the Beast and had a half-assed "workprint"), but this would require either a double-sided "flipper" disc, or the quality would take a huge hit. Or they could always do like they did with Finding Nemo and have two discs, one with each ratio, each disc having exclusive features to make the most of the two-disc set.Personally, I'd prefer if both versions were included (Academy and Matted) for the films in question. Satisfy both camps and call it a day. Then I wouldn't have to read some of the petty, ill-informed, inaccurate, and frankly, juvenile posts from some of the more entitled Disney fans out there.
But nowadays Disney is all about being cheap (no chapter inserts? Eco-boxes? Please.) so again, it'll never happen.
This. And heck, unlike pan-and-scan (note the word PAN - many times they DID actually pan the camera side to side to catch the full action), I'm like 99.9% positive that for the cropped versions of these Disney movies, it's dead-center and doesn't move at all. So you could easily re-create such a video by using a simple crop filter, whether the zoom on your DVD player, or encoding it on a computer. Whereas if you were trying to re-create a pan-and-scan transfer of widescreen movies, you'd often have the wrong portion of the picture if you just did a "dumb crop".They don't even need to do that, as you don't really lose any image quality with blu-ray when you set your TV to zoom (Unless maybe you have an 80" TV). I think they should just put the Acadamy ratio versions on there and tell people, if you REALLY want to see it cropped then hit the damn zoom button on your HD TV to fill up the screen.
What IS "WIST"?That's going on the WIST list
In many cases it is, but one thing I hate about sites like widescreen.org is that they don't mention that earlier movies WERE actually shot in a non-widescreen aspect ratio. My general policy is "whatever has the most picture", save for obvious things that weren't meant to be seen, such as hanging boom mics in live action movies. If it was filmed in Academy, I generally prefer to watch it that way, assuming it exists. (I would love to find a scan of the Super-35 Terminator 2, since both versions of those are missing like half the picture, just different parts for each version...)I've really not understood all the time about the ratio thing, I just grew up learning one thing. That Widescreen is KING
I'm surprised you haven't rationalized THAT into "more proof that they don't really even go by that, they just do whatever they feel like doing"...
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