Films That Have Not Seen An Anamorphic DVD or Blu-ray

[Chaotic]

Ravenous

[RBBrittain]

Annie Hall (UK & other international releases were anamorphic, but US was not)

[wonkavision]

Arachophobia
Lake Placid
Fearless (w/ Jeff bridges)
The Witches

[HD Goofnut]

OP please update this thread.

[KulasDevorn]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Ravenous

Heh? I have it on DVD in Widescreen. I think people need to make sure before they post the movie on here. Always do an amazon search before you post.

Ill add "Cyborg 2" with a very young Angelina Jolie to your list. It is only available in pan and scan DVD.

[Daaark]

Originally Posted by KulasDevorn

Heh? I have it on DVD in Widescreen. I think people need to make sure before they post the movie on here. Always do an amazon search before you post.

The term 'widescreen' is kind of meaningless.

You can have 'widescreen' by placing the image cropped inside the 640x480/4:3 area, but an anamorphic image will expand to 720x480/16:9, and be a true wide image.

Many DVDs were 4:3 'widescreen'.

You have to look at the back of the DVD and make sure it says 'enhanced for widescreen tvs', or anamorphic on the back.

Example: Here's my 'fake widescreen' 48 Hours DVD. If you don't have your DVD player set to stretch out 4:3 DVDs to be fullscreen, it will actually play pillar boxed. If you do stretch it out, it just looks funny.


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Here is High Fidelity, an anamorphic disc, properly widescreen


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[TheOneWithThePrize]

Originally Posted by KulasDevorn

Ill add "Cyborg 2" with a very young Angelina Jolie to your list. It is only available in pan and scan DVD.

Gotta love my French anamorphic DVD of Cyborg 2 (or Glass Shadow as they titled it).

[Shawn Elestren]

Deep Rising (1998)

[Shawn Elestren]

Nothing But Trouble
Caddyshack 2

[yojoeski]

Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie
The Gnome Mobile
Dersu Uzala
Madadayo

I also think A Time To Kill doesn't have an anamorphic release nor does Dick Tracy. May be wrong on those 2 but I don't think I am.

[Shawn Elestren]

Highlander 3

[DVDave]

Slipstream (1989) starring Mark Hamill produced by Gary Kurtz directed by Steven Lisberger (Tron)

[TheOneWithThePrize]

Originally Posted by Shawn Watson

Highlander 3

It was re-issued in the US in 2005 with an anamorphic transfer (it does however lose things like the portal Kane steps through when arriving in New York and altered effects on the rim of the glasses he knicks off of the street hustlers, also changes a line of dialogue as Kane and his henchmen breaks out from the cave. Furthermore it drops the Suze DeMarchi "God Took a Picture" song for Loreena McKennitt's "Bonny Portmore" during the end credits).

[Flanger-Hanger]

Originally Posted by yojoeski

Dick Tracy

The DVD is 16:9 enhanced widescreen.

[HD Goofnut]

OP please update this thread. You are now a month behind.

[Bl@deRu>>er]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Ravenous

You are WHO you eat. Love the opening Nietzsche quote "He that fights with monsters should look to himself that he does not become a monster." Robert Carlyle was great as Colonel Ives.

[Shawn Elestren]

Wrongfully Accused
Joshua Tree
Gunmen
Showdown in Little Tokyo

[Maggot]

This Dudley Moore classic exists on a horrible 4:3, absolutely horrific quality transfer, DVD. At least they are finally going release it correctly very soon. The current DVD transfer is so bad that even if the Blu ray is a mediocre one, it's going to be miles ahead still.

[TheOneWithThePrize]

Originally Posted by Shawn Watson

Wrongfully Accused
Joshua Tree
Gunmen
Showdown in Little Tokyo

Gunmen had an anamorphic DVD release in Japan and Showdown in Little Tokyo had an anamorphic DVD release throughout Europe and Australia. I own these myself.

[yojoeski]

Originally Posted by Flanger-Hanger

The DVD is 16:9 enhanced widescreen.

Really? I thought I read something not too long ago saying that when/if Dick Tracy comes out on blu-ray, that it would be the first time it was released anamorphically.

Update as well, checked with a friend who owns A Time To Kill on dvd and he has informed me that it is in fact an anamorphic transfer so please remove from the list.