From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   David E. Powell wrote:   
   > I have heard that the DVDs were cut off on the top and the bottom - Is   
   > this true? I would very much like to see them in original format if   
   > possible, even if it means space at the sides on the "new style" HD   
   > TV.   
      
   It's complicated. The original live footage was shot wide-screen, and   
   the original CGI was designed wide-screen. But the original computers   
   were programmed only to generate the central area of the images, to save   
   computer time. The idea was that, eventually, the missing CGI side   
   panels would be generated for the DVD.   
      
   And then some damfool at Warner Brothers lost the master data, so that   
   the missing parts can no longer be created.   
      
   So the live footage is being shown the way it was intended to be shown   
   all along, but scenes with CGI, including scenes composited with live   
   action, have had to be trimmed top and bottom to match.   
      
   Maybe in 5-10 years they'll do the same thing that "Star Trek" has done,   
   and create all-new CGI.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump   
   of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that   
   because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in   
   the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I   
   can't see it that way."   
      -- The last words of Bat Masterson   
      
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