That's just pan and scan from a 2.35:1 source to 16:9. It's actually quite common. "Normal" people hate seeing black bars on their TV, some even more on their f

That's just pan and scan from a 2.35:1 source to 16:9. It's actually quite common. "Normal" people hate seeing black bars on their TV, some even more on their fancy new widescreen HDTV. The big problem here is that pan and scan jobs look particularly shitty, as if they were just blew up the center and cropped the edges.