Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets) Collection Oct 29

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Originally Posted by mar3o

Oh, no! This is bad news. How do studios make stupid decisions/mistakes like this? What were they thinking? This should be a recall if this is the case. Sure, I can alter my tv aspect ratio, but what a pain. And even worse if it ends up switching aspect ratios back and forth for some of the extras. I would have to keep changing my aspect ratio back and forth. And what if it's some weird stretching so that setting your set to 4:3 wouldn't correct it properly? Then you're stuck with it distorted no matter what. Ugh, they had to do something to screw this up, didn't they? It might just be the extras but still, there are a heap of extras, and I don't want them stretched.

By the way, I can't remember if I asked previously, or if it was mentioned, but are all the extras SD? There are a lot of galleries that would be nice in HD.

EDIT: here's a comment on Amazon that addresses the extras:

1) Not all of the extras from the original DVD releases are included. Where is the translated Manga they had? Gone, that's where.

2) 1080p. S T R E T C H E D from SD sources. Yes, they cropped this into a 16x9 format. Graphics look ugly, people look fat. Why did they do that here, in the extras, but left the original video intact? I'm not sure, maybe they assume no one cares about the extras like they would the series proper?

There may be other extras missing and I'll update my review as I find them, but the interviews and so on ARE included.

So some extras were dropped after all? I wonder what else is missing besides the translated Manga? And he mentions it was "Cropped" to 16:9. Does that mean it's actually cropped, or just stretched? It sounds like it's just stretched to fill 16:9. Really bad idea.

Just checked my extras blu ray disc and yes it is a little stretched. Don`t know if all the extras are there or not. Haven`t made it all the way through yet. But, sucks if they are not. Some things have been moved around so it might take forever to see where something was on the dvd compared to the blu ray.