TheMacB
Veteran
I was extremely disappointed when I started watching Manhattan on Netflix Watch It Now on the old XBox and found that it was cropped to 16:9! I've never heard of a 2.35:1 movie being cropped to 16:9. But it seems especially Wrong because of this trivia I read on IMDB:
Presentations of this film on television (broadcast, cable or home video) required preservation of the widescreen format. This presented a problem in the U.S. since certain F.C.C. technical regulations did not permit a portion of the screen to be left blank as in letterboxing. The problem was solved by making the area above and below the frame gray. The regulations have since been changed and letterboxing with black borders is now permitted.
I wonder if Woody knows about this?
Presentations of this film on television (broadcast, cable or home video) required preservation of the widescreen format. This presented a problem in the U.S. since certain F.C.C. technical regulations did not permit a portion of the screen to be left blank as in letterboxing. The problem was solved by making the area above and below the frame gray. The regulations have since been changed and letterboxing with black borders is now permitted.
I wonder if Woody knows about this?
