Old TV Shows, Concerts, Documentaries with 1.33 OAR on Blu-ray™ Disc

[aiman04]

Sorry if this has been discussed before, the search didn't find anything.

I’m already building my Blu-ray Disc collection, which all of them originally shot in widescreen format (1.78:1, 1.85:1, 2.35:1 and 2.40:1). Latest TV series, documentaries and concerts are shot in Hi-Def with the 16x9 aspect ratio, so that’s good.

But I’m starting to think about replacing my old concerts and TV series DVDs like “The X-Files” with BDs. I know there are not many being released on BD yet, but when they do release them, how are they going to handle the AR? Would they just do pan & scan and crop to get the 1.78:1 ratio?

Me, I’m crazy with widescreen format, I’m willing to have the video cropped instead of stretched. And watching in 1.33:1 AR on your widescreen TV is not advisable, because there’s a risk of burning your screen pixels at the edge of the 1.33:1 frame if you do that too long.

The movie business has practically been cropping their movies anyway, to get the theatrical widescreen format with movies shot in Super 35. One example is “The Shining”

What do you guys think? How do you prefer?