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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

Whenever I go to my local Blockbuster to rent a DVD, it comes as a Widescreen version. So when I put it in my DVD player, I get a black screen on the top and bottom and the picture in the middle. I ...

It's an important scene in the 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro": Caught stealing a crucial map, Zorro squares off against his smarmy nemesis, Capt. Harrison Love. The adversaries brandish their swords ...

The method used for storing wide screen movies on DVDs to maximize the resolution on wide screen TVs as well as standard TVs that support anamorphic mode. Similar to the way an anamorphic lens ...

Q I recently purchased a Samsung plasma TV and love it, but I am confused about widescreen DVDs and the possibility of burn-in. With widescreen DVDs, I sometimes still get black bars. They are ...

It’s now the norm for us to watch TV programmes and films in our homes on widescreen displays. Yet this has been a norm for less than a decade now, in spite of widescreen TVs being around a lot longer ...