Aspect ratio question about the official Thundarr the Barbarian DVD-R's - Blu-ray Forum

AnamorphicWidescreen · 09-12-2016, 02:17 AM

I'm a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic early '80's cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian. So, last year, I got out these official Thundarr DVD-R's from the local library & re-watched the show. These were all in the original full-screen format, i.e. 4:3 - this is the way those of us who watched this show back in the day saw them, i.e. to fit on the old Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV set.

More recently, I bought these official DVD-R's from Amazon, and am currently watching them - note, these are definitely the official DVD's that came out circa 2010, not bootlegs (I've never seen bootlegs of this show). However, these copies are in the "Widescreen" format - i.e., they fill up my entire flat widescreen TV set. Note that I'm not a novice re: aspect rations; i.e., my TV is set up so that if I'm watching a widescreen movie, it will automatically be set to the correct format (16:9). And, full-screen TV shows/movies will automatically be shown in the correct format too, i.e. 4:3.

Note that if I "change" the format of my TV screen to 4:3 when watching these Thundarr DVD's, it will truncate the picture of these Thundarr Widescreen images, so half the picture will be cut off. Obviously, this does not look good.

So, do I have some kind of "alternate" copy of these DVD's that have been modified from full-screen to widescreen? However, if so, why is it that the previous DVD's I saw were full-screen? Are there two different official sets of these official DVD's?!

Note, I'm not upset about this - nor do I plan on returning them (I got them from Amazon months ago, and just got around to watching them now - so, it's too late to return them anyway). They do look good - I'm just puzzled about this.

Any info./input regarding this would be great - Thanks in advance!

09-12-2016, 02:17 AM	#1
AnamorphicWidescreen Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Feb 2014	Aspect ratio question about the official Thundarr the Barbarian DVD-R's I'm a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic early '80's cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian. So, last year, I got out these official Thundarr DVD-R's from the local library & re-watched the show. These were all in the original full-screen format, i.e. 4:3 - this is the way those of us who watched this show back in the day saw them, i.e. to fit on the old Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV set. More recently, I bought these official DVD-R's from Amazon, and am currently watching them - note, these are definitely the official DVD's that came out circa 2010, not bootlegs (I've never seen bootlegs of this show). However, these copies are in the "Widescreen" format - i.e., they fill up my entire flat widescreen TV set. Note that I'm not a novice re: aspect rations; i.e., my TV is set up so that if I'm watching a widescreen movie, it will automatically be set to the correct format (16:9). And, full-screen TV shows/movies will automatically be shown in the correct format too, i.e. 4:3. Note that if I "change" the format of my TV screen to 4:3 when watching these Thundarr DVD's, it will truncate the picture of these Thundarr Widescreen images, so half the picture will be cut off. Obviously, this does not look good. So, do I have some kind of "alternate" copy of these DVD's that have been modified from full-screen to widescreen? However, if so, why is it that the previous DVD's I saw were full-screen? Are there two different official sets of these official DVD's?! Note, I'm not upset about this - nor do I plan on returning them (I got them from Amazon months ago, and just got around to watching them now - so, it's too late to return them anyway). They do look good - I'm just puzzled about this. Any info./input regarding this would be great - Thanks in advance!

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