DVD - The topic of matted widescreen DVD versus anamorphic widescreen DVD can be confusing.
Many people assume that all widescreen transfers from film to DVD video are the same.
This article gives a brief history of the anamorphic film process along with the film matting process, and shows how similar techniques are used to produce two different kinds of DVDs. Not only are the resulting DVDs different, one technique produces a visually superior DVD than the other. There are many players available on the market which, and with a little help from some simple easy to follow methods, some of these can be altered without so much as opening the lid and invalidating the warranty, to become multi-region. Laserdisc LaserDisc is a laser read optical disc system used for the reproduction of video and audio signals. The system reproduces a full bandwidth analogue video signal with around 7MHz response, along with dual FM coded analogue audio signals.