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The cropping bothers me as well. I'm a horror film fan and just about every USA horror film from the 70s to the early 90s are badly cropped on UHD,BD, and DVD. The old 4x3 VHS tapes contain much more picture on the top and bottom. Also more often than not the 16x9 version does not even have any extra picture on the sides, it just crops the top and bottom of the picture. I call it a "crop stretch" where the actors look like they on 50 pounds of extra weight!
Whatever the cropped system is used, and except really bad conversion job, proportion has to be the same and if the proportion is not proper (looking with absurd streched proportion) then it's really a not proper conversion, it's not really often even really rare I think .... !!!
I think this is a typical argument between the purists and most people. It doesn’t bother most people hence why 16:9 is the popular choice. This certainly doesn’t make it right as RogerRabbit has explained.
For some Blu-ray Release with both 4/3 and 16/9 AR version done from the same Master, the 4/3 Full Frame of course don't cover all your 16/9 display system but have more precise details/grain as the 16/9 is streched and even covering all display, it looses image part and have less precise details/grain ... But it is probably for purists only !
About Six Feet Under : Remastered is in 16/9 and have more picture information on left and right compares to 4/3 which was cropped from the 16/9 Ratio ... but there is some rare shot where the 4/3 is the original frame and where 4/3 contains more information on top and bottom !!!
@RogerRabbit exactly, even small mistakes like missing a 't' or mispelling 'klowns' with a 'c' can get you flamed here now, since whendid this happen, i'll be quiet from now on...
@icedragonslair: you should calm down, me and everyone else think you don't know how to search using imdb link so I just want to guide you You are always someone I respect