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 ...

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 ...

The DVD is no longer a new medium, but some consumers still struggle to grasp the many features of the format. (You, the reader still mourning the loss of the Betamax. I'm talking to you.) All the ...

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 ...

So recently I've been ripping DVDs to my Zune in it's native 320x240 format. The problem is that ripping widescreen formats into 4:3 aspect ratio leaves those annoying black bars on top and bottom.

THE “Spider-Man 2” people sent me a “full screen” copy of their snazzy blockbuster. Glass half full: It’s always nice to be remembered, especially with one of the year’s best films and one of the ...

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 ...