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Gone is the annoying line structure. Small object detail is superb. Halos have been banished. Compression artifacts are not visible. Fine textures like film grain and facial imperfections are now delineated in great detail. I saw things that I had missed on previous releases, like one of the wires supporting a model of a B-52. The anamorphic video seems a little darker than the previous non-anamorphic transfer, and a bit of black crush masks some of the shadow detail. But this is the best presentation of Strangelove ever released, and for those who are fans of the film and Kubrick’s work, this is the one to own.
However, I really don't understand this:
The previous two releases of this film by Columbia in 2001 and Warner Bros. in 1999 offered the same fullscreen transfer. The film’s aspect ratio switched back and forth between 1.66:1 and the Academy Ratio of 1.37:1, so the original transfer was a blend of full screen and non-anamorphic letterbox video. Regular readers know that we’ve described how 1.66:1 window-paned anamorphic video has far more resolution in than a non-anamorphic widescreen version. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment has finally struck a new high definition transfer from which this DVD’s anamorphic video was derived. The top and bottom of the 1.37:1 scenes have been cropped to maintain 1.66:1 throughout, and the results are a revelation.
Why is it a *good* think that the new transfer is cropped? Is the extra resolution of the anamorphic transfer really that big of a deal? I'd be curious to see exactly what is cropped out.