Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
Widescreen vs. Full-Frame: Ending the Controversy, Hopefully
Hello,I started looking into this question of how "Transformers: the Movie" was photographed and found these helpful URL's below:* http://www.tftm.net/screening.shtml* http://www.tftm.net/technical_details.shtmlApparently the fellow(s) behind this site have done some rather extensive research on this topic and found that it was indeed done in a 4:3 aspect ratio. The idea was to allow each theater to perform their own matting based on whatever projector they have. It's a practice known as "Open Matte" or "soft" matting.I hope this puts your concerns at rest for purchasing any reissue of "Transformers: the Movie". Unless, of course, they decide to use DVD-9 (dual layer DVD) and thus not use so much compression on the video (I refer you to the URL's for further explanation). Save your cash for a Blu-Ray / HD-DVD player and all the titles you'll repurchase to see your movies in true HD format ;). Now if I only had that 20th Anniversary Tron DVD...Oh yes, the movie is a lot of fun. The music is what it is, but it was 1986! What do you expect? That's the only reason this movie gets (4) out of (5) from me because it gets to be a touch grating on the ears at times. Anyway, get a pizza, a few root beers, and enjoy this movie.Cheers,Isaquit0