Spartacus - why release in 1.85:1 AR?

This problem is easily remedied... its not on Blu-Ray.

My bad, I'm format neutral although most of my collection is BR. The question still stands though, even if it should have been posted on the HD board. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/ and click on more next to aspect ratio.

Unfortunately Spartacus is one of the worst efforts at HDM transfer out there,sad really since it is a truly great film.


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Originally Posted by helmsman /forum/post/12861095


My bad, I'm format neutral although most of my collection is BR. The question still stands though, even if it should have been posted on the HD board. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/ and click on more next to aspect ratio.

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Your question was already answered. Spartacus has only been released on HD-DVD, and that release is in the correct aspect ratio, 2.20:1. Where you are getting 1.85:1 from, I don't know.



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Originally Posted by MaynardJames /forum/post/12863046


Your question was already answered. Spartacus has only been released on HD-DVD, and that release is in the correct aspect ratio, 2.20:1. Where you are getting 1.85:1 from, I don't know.

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I'm getting the info off the product description on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Spartacus-HD-D...0765047&sr=1-2


Acutally, it's worse than I thought - Amazon says it's 1.66:1. Where are you getting that it was released in 2.20:1? I know the DVD version came in that format but I can't find anything saying that for HDM. So I'm still wonderiing if anyone knows why the HDM version came out in such a limited AR and if there are plans to at least mirror the DVD AR in HDM.

1) Your link doesn't work.


2) I actually own the HD-DVD and it is 2.21:1



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Originally Posted by Volitar Prime /forum/post/12866548


1) Your link doesn't work.


2) I actually own the HD-DVD and it is 2.21:1

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Hmm. If you go to Amazon and search on Spartacus and pull up the HD-DVD you'll see what I mean. Glad to hear it's 2.2 on yours. Must be a misprint on Amazon and actually I could have sworn that a week ago they said it was 1.85, now they say it's 1.66. Does the package actually say 2.2?

Don't take Amazon as gospel. Sometimes they're wrong.


Even the disc packaging can be wrong. The packaging for Cast Away lists the AR as 2.35:1 when the film is actually 1.85:1, just as the DVD did years ago. I guess someone at Fox just went by that DVD package when doing the back of the BD cover.

Thanks to everyone who answered the OP's question (deleted the bickering comments)..let's close this and move on.