Hi!

I heard somewhere (Amazon?) that the image translation was quite poor for the first two movies, at least in the PAL version. But this is not what's stopping my greedy hand.

From what you guys are telling here I deduce that my very first DVD purchase will wait until they get it right: that is, full image as *filmed*, cut to the screen size according to the latter at the time of *viewing*.

Otherwise, it's a shitty DVD standard, that's it. I don't know what kind of hardware they've been targeting back then, but if you can unpack MPEG-2 on the fly, you can surely cut and pane (or however it's called) for the remaining 2 pc.

Adding appropriate editing info for the most common formats (4:3, 16:9, and perhaps a couple of others) would be no big deal. I bet the real game here is to sell as many different versions as possible with the time. Thanks, not for me.

Best regards.

Alexander