Blu-ray’s “Big” little secret

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Originally Posted by Yojimbo68

When the format wars were at full peek there was a lot of misinformation floating around. I remember Harry Knowles of "Ain't It Cool" reporting that DVD's would not play on Blu-ray players. That was never true.

I recall hearing that. Supposedly you could play DVDs on an HD-DVD player, but not on a blu-ray.

While it's nice that most DVDs upscale nicely, the only problem is that some of my older DVDs that are "widescreen" are actually fullscreen then letterboxed, not anamorphic...my BD player plays these with four black bars around it, or stretched horizontally, but not vertically, depending on my settings. Nothing seems to bring it up to fill the screen, keeping the aspect.