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Post subject: Re: When did Laserdisc movies started being in widescreen Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 05:18 |
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blam1 wrote: I'm almost positive the Paramount release of "The Out-of-Towners" LV6914 is NOT widescreen. That's why I put a big " Assuming the information is accurate" disclaimer first Maybe just the opening/closing credits are LBX and the rest of the movie is P&S as it was commonly done to avoid cropped names? Can someone double-check to give back to Manhattan the crown of the first USA LD LBX release? Julien
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Post subject: Re: When did Laserdisc movies started being in widescreen Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 17:12 |
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Besides the earliest widescreen LDs, to answer the question as to when they became more common, I would probably say after the Criterion Collection started taking off. While their earliest letterbox release (at least according to the database), Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in 1987, it was their output that made other LD distributors take notice and start taking advantages of the format. Then did letterbox LDs become more prevalent in the very late 80s and early 90s. Unless you're talking about the Japanese market. It seems letterboxing LDs were more prevalent earlier than that as Julien points out. The earliest released Letterboxed Japan LDs I have in my collection are Halloween II and Terror in the Aisles. Unfortunately, neither of those have a listed release date in the database. Though you can tell they are somewhat early releases since they only have analog audio.
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