I know all this makes perfect sense to you and to my husband who is in the production business, but for someone like me who is not technically minded it's all greek. Honestly, it has never even bothered me to watch a regular screen and I know people are hankering for the wide screen. My husband has pointed out the quality of the picture, say with bue ray versus regular and it is a pretty picture, but still...Maybe I really only care more about the subject matter than the quality of the picture.