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> ***I find it very annoying when I see a 4:3 pillar-boxed image on my<br>
> 16:9 screen that says, "This movie has been modified from its original<br>
> version. It has been edited for content /and to fit your screen/."<br>
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</div>Boy do I agree with you on that one !!!<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>It's much easier (read: cheaper and faster) to run a 4:3 program (that has already had the sides chopped, or been pan+scan'ed to be 4:3) through an up-converter to make it HD than it is to find an anamorphic versions and re-edit them for braodcast and upconvert them to HD, or to go back to film and transfer to HD.<br>
<br>The networks reasoning is to get inventory converted to fill black space on air, while more original HD programming is created. It's just a stop-gap and will pass. </div></div><br></div>