And as we all know on DVDTalk, nothing matters more than OAR and we have to draw the line somewhere!

For the record, I reiterate, it was not my kid. :P

To be perfectly honest the little shit scared the hell out of me. As soon as I clicked widescreen he screamed much louder than I would have thought he was capable. My girlfriend's kid just looked at him like he was nuts.

just give em an insert. Nothing like reading or learning that shuts a kid up pretty fast.

And on Disc 1, co-director Andrew Stanton notes in the intro that Disc 1 contains a widescreen presentation and that Disc 2 contains a full-screen presentation. (A quickie graphic illustrates how the presentations compare.) Then he says (paraphrased), "If I were you, I'd watch the widescreen version first." (Then he says to watch the making-of documentary and then the widescreen version again with the visual commentary.)

That sounds even more interesting--that the director wants viewers to watch the widescreen version.

I watched that intro about the fullscreen too shortly after picking up the dvd on tuesday. So I was curious to see exactly what the comparison was, so I put the widescreen in one dvd player and the fullscreen in another on 2 TVs, side by side, and went to the exact same moment in the movie on both discs.

The fullscreen, as suspect, does have a little bit more on the top and bottom, but it loses quite a bit on the sides. So, it's not exactly like they lead you to believe in the intro. Put them side by side and see for yourself. You're still losing some of what was suppose to be seen and gaining some of what wasn't suppose to be seen.

Anyone got screenshots showing what they are talking about by "enhanced" full-screen? I understand the description given, but would like to see it for myself.

Or, if someone could point me to a specific scene where I could see it in action, that would be great too!

This is the one exception where I intentionally chose the "full screen version" over the "widescreen version". Esp. since I don't have a widescreen TV and the picture is just bigger on my "small" 32" screen. If everything the filmakers intended to be onscreen is there, that's what matters most. Of course it can slightly change the overall feel and composition of the movie (from what I saw in the theatre), but again I do prefer the bigger picture.

When I get my Widescreen HD TV that's what Disc 1 is for.

The recompositing thing is hardly what they make it out like. On A Bugs Life, you still see massive pan and scanning, and tons of stuff is still cut off.

It's better than just plain pan and scan, but in the end, it's still just a 3 dressed up as as 9. Go with the prom queen, go widescreen.

Bug's Life was still 50% Pan N Scan. However, with Nemo, I can beleive that they went back and "open matted" the entire film. It made enough in the theatres to justify the lavish treatment.

However, I still watched the WS version, and will watch the WS version on all future viewings.

bjh's comments are the most informative, since the reformatting process sounds a lot more like a Super35 reformatting than the straight open-matte the director's intro on disc 2 suggests.