A lot of early DVDs were 4:3 letterboxed. On a 4:3 SDTV, they look the same as anamorphic widescreen. Sometimes better, on some of the old DVD players that did

A lot of early DVDs were 4:3 letterboxed. On a 4:3 SDTV, they look the same as anamorphic widescreen. Sometimes better, on some of the old DVD players that did a bad job of downsizing.