We can't trust sellers for this sort of info. It's part of a template.

Quoting ya_shin:

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I had seen different information, so I asked more details about what you had seen.

Some nerve! 

Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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Then my apologies for misunderstanding, I hope you understand the implication of Are you certain about The Terminator though? Like i said I wouldn't have reported it otherwise. This is going to entertaining to see exactly what is meant by Fullscreen, several of the retailers are also reporting it as Pan & Scan, there are about 10 or 12 titles and all of them appear to be coming from MGM, Terminator, Hart's War(2.35), A Bridge Too Far(2.35), The Graduate, Planet of the Apes (2.35), Robocop (2.35), Rocky and Rollerball, to name just a few.

IF MGM is actually planning 4X3 Blu-Rays, I suspect there will be pardon my french...hell to pay for it. MGM has enough problems, right now. But even if they are planning 16X9 Fullscreens it won't be pretty.
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I believe Robocop is 1.66  isnt it??

                   

Read the DVDBeaver review:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews32/terminator_blu-ray.htm

Terminator - Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Terminator 2 - Video Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

  Image : 6.5~8

"For better or worse, I decided to purchase Fox's "Ultimate Edition" from Japan about a year and a half ago.  It was an expensive whim.  I bought not only The Terminator, but also Alien, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Die Hard, The Silence of the Lambs, and Moulin Rouge in Japanese Ultimates all at once.  I had to know how they stacked up against the best Fox had to offer stateside.  Worse still, besides the cost of just under $40 each shipped, was the nagging feeling that these would all, sooner rather than later, be superceded by high-definition editions.  At the time, we were expecting the first High Definition DVDs to come out by summer.  Sure enough, The Terminator – the least good image but one (TGTB&TU) of the Japanese Ultimates - was the first to materialize in Blu-ray.  I made notes to myself at the time about the comparison between the Japanese and US SD editions.  Be warned that my observations were made referencing the image on a high quality 29 inch CRT"


"The first DVD of the original Terminator was a pretty dismal effort.  The second U.S. version was an improvement in every way; but the R2 (even though I have every reason to assume it was struck from the same master as the most recent R1) is – how shall I say it – the ultimate.  The relative absence of digital noise and other bothersome artifacts was palpable.  I would have thought that James Cameron's budget did not extend to a film stock that could survive this long, let alone capture image quality that can tell the difference between leather and vinyl, but here it is.  The image is sharp enough that it tells us more than we really want to know about the effects - with its cheap modeling of outdoor nighttime warfare in the future and, happily, brief flashes of rear projection - but we shouldn't hold this against the DVD."

"The Ultimate"!  Hmmm.  I have since let go of the US R1, so my remarks about comparisons to the Blu-ray will have to be put up against the R2; and since the R2 doesn't play in my BDP-S300, the BD will have to show its stuff against the Ayre DX-7 DVD player.  By the way, this R2 edition is no longer in print, so the whole thing is moot, but that has never stopped us Beavers in the past, so . . . having committed myself to feeling I was seeing this movie again for the first time a year and a half ago, I must now admit to déja-vu all over again for this Blu-ray experience.  It appears that the entire movie has been reconsidered, especially in terms of contrast: The R2, by comparison to the BD, looks even more two-dimensional than a typical SD.  Sharpness is another matter, and worth considering in more detail: There aren't a great many really sharp frames in this movie – mostly it is grainy and of indeterminate clarity.  The really sharp bits, such as the close-up of Sarah's pet iguana and the sequence of her in the jeep at the end just before she herself is photographed, come off only a little better in the BD.  [Since the R2/Ayre combo is better than the R1/S300, the BD would have a noticeable edge compared to the R1 still in print.]  No, it's in the majority of the movie's less than sharp image where the BD shows its stuff.  Keep in mind that, in addition to a more highly resolved image on the DVD, a significant advantage to high definition source material is the expectation that it will be played on high definition displays, meaning that there is nothing to scale, nothing to interpolate.  Fuzzy bits become even fuzzier when upscaled to 1080p from 480.  They remain merely fuzzy when no scaling is involved.  This is no small advantage, and is one of the more important reasons why BD manifests the dimensionality that it does.  Even with material as compromised as The Terminator, our mind relaxes as we watch, squirming, but squintless."

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I believe Robocop is 1.66  isnt it??

At least it should be. The Criterion DVD had this aspect ration, but newer re-releases from MGM used a different master that had only a matted and slightly zoomed-in 1,78:1 (or 1,85:1, not sure) aspect ratio:

Source:
http://www.caps-a-holic.com/vergleich.php?lang=en&vergleichID=52

Quoting Ken Cole:

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Death to the black bars!  We can't have black bars taking up my valuable screen real-estate!  I went out and got myself a fancy HDTV and I still have those dang bars on the top and the bottom!  Zoom it in so I don't have to see em!  So what if some of the stuff on the side gets cut off?  Most of the action is in the center anyways!
















... not.

You should have gone with a 2.35:1 constant height screen set up, and you'd never have to worry about horizontal black bars.  Didn't you say that you had a masking system?  All you'd need to do is close up the mask from the sides, depending on the AR of the movie you're watching!