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so, am i the only one who repeatedly winds up with fullscreen copies of dvds that i have to go exchange for the proper ones? this is like, the third or fourth time i've done this. is there really such a market for the crappy pan & scan versions that they keep popping up everywhere? and since they're filling 2-3 discs with crap already, why not just cram it all on there? other discs, even ones with bonus stuff, seem to manage. and, if there's no other recourse, and they absolutely must make separate packaged versions of the letterboxed and fullscreen versions, could they please make the differentiating text on the package somewhat more conspicuous than what it typically is, small text at the top or bottom that i seem to repeatedly filter out as irrelevant billing of the 'super-special-unrated-extra-outtakes-fucking-greedo-shoots-first-edition.'

Kids...
And people with small TV's. That's the market for pan-n-scan/full-screen DVD's. The former think that letterbox is "dumb-looking" and the latter genuinely have trouble seeing the picture.
I'm with you though. Letterbox all the way!