Last year, something remarkable happened in the world of cinema. Blockbuster Video, the country’s dominant rental chain, announced that from that point on it officially preferred widescreen DVDs to ...

It's an important scene in the 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro": Caught stealing a crucial map, Zorro squares off against his smarmy nemesis, Capt. Harrison Love. The adversaries brandish their swords ...

Someone introduced us to widescreen videos on VHS. These videos presented the full picture as you saw it in the theater, but did so on our 4:3 (non-widescreen) televisions. Later, DVD came along; ...

I hope this post will be redundant to most people, but I'm writing it because even after all this time, there seems to be some confusion. A few months back, I was in the electronics department of ...

I don't understand this.<BR><BR>I hocked up my DVD player to my RCA HDTV (L26WD23) widescreen TV. I use Component cables for video. I set my DVD player to Widescreen.<BR><BR>When I play my Battlestar ...

Q I recently purchased a Samsung plasma TV and love it, but I am confused about widescreen DVDs and the possibility of burn-in. With widescreen DVDs, I sometimes still get black bars. They are ...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is expected to receive final approval this month to settle claims by at least 587 consumers who alleged they were misled into believing they purchased DVDs with widescreen ...

Whenever I go to my local Blockbuster to rent a DVD, it comes as a Widescreen version. So when I put it in my DVD player, I get a black screen on the top and bottom and the picture in the middle. I ...