I bought an HD DVD player a couple of years ago but the demise of the format and the relatively high price points of the competing Blu Ray players caused me to shy away from HiDef for a while…until recently. I’d been doing some research — see, I wanted to go “region free” AND I…
Category: widescreen
Aspect Ratio and the Necessity of Enhanced DVDs
The 16:9 widescreen TV revolution has forced me to come to terms with the often misunderstood topic of DVD aspect ratios. It turns out some of the disks in my collection — including “2001: A Space Odyssey” — are now almost unwatchable, thanks to obsolete video technology that is still being practiced by some manufacturers…