The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection - June 4, 2019

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by DawnShadow

You said "That could still be someone's interpretation of 4:3 for modern DVD."

What I'm saying is, it definitely is someone's interpretation of 4:3 for modern DVD. There's no other way of it being 16:9 and preserving the original AR.

Not necessarily. Your answer seems to assume that WB will present the series in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1, but while that's likely to be the case, it hasn't been confirmed yet, and people are rightly a bit concerned about the 1.78:1 aspect ratio mentioned on the Blu-ray, which should instead be referring to the 1.33:1 aspect ratio of the series itself.

In fact, the whole point of the post by rdodolak I was originally responding to was about how the very confusing language quoted on the new DVD package further muddles the situation. It appears to be WHV's definition of a DVD that is actually 16:9 pillarboxed 4:3 (as opposed to simply 4:3 1.33:1), but the language used is unnecessarily confusing. All they needed to say is:

Presented in a "pillarbox" format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition.

The word "widescreen" should not be anywhere in the description if the video is indeed 1.33:1, because 99% of consumers have no idea that modern 4:3 DVDs are now matted into a 16:9 frame, and most people perceive 1.78:1 or "widescreen" as the antithesis of 1.33:1, which, of course, used to be called "fullscreen" or "standard" in the days of 4:3 TVs.