where's that thread about message hijacking/trolling? LOL

No. The regular disc is 1.33:1. Sony discontinued the flipper about a year ago.

The old widescreen disc is still available on many retailer shelves, and will likely continue to be for a long time. There's also of course eBay and many other outlets for finding out of print discs.

Well, "Digital Cinema Sound" just may be the home equivalent of SDDS. I have a DVD player that has built-in DCS decoding, along with the aforementioned Malaysian DVD that claims to include a DCS track.

...or maybe I'm wrong. A Google search for "Digital Cinema Sound" turned up the following:

http://www.sony.net/Products/audio/t...ogy/index.html

As best as I can tell, DCS is simply a processing preset available on some Sony hardware. My guess is that the "DCS" logo and trailer on my Malaysian STAR WARS Episode I DVD means nothing. The trailer was probably just a demo clip from Sony, and the bootleggers probably just threw the logo onto the DVD like they do with many other logos that don't actually apply, like "DVD9" and sometimes "dts".

If only that were true. It might be the case with Gattaca, but most of the time, no matter how many copies are supposed to be out there and were no doubt traded in once an SE or something came out, it's often nearly impossible to find a WS/FS version once the studio switches to FS-only (namely Sony). I've been looking for Hero (not the Jet Li one) on a 2-sided disc for quite a while with no luck whatsoever. I mean it's a fairly unremarkable Dustin Hoffman movie that's obviously overstocked because they're blowing them out at WAL-MART, but I can't seem to find the original WS/FS version anywhere. It was out long before Sony went to single-sided discs, so there should be many more WS/FS discs out there than the newer FS ones.

Oh sure, eBay's an "outlet", but you gotta be quick on the "Bid" button and have pretty deep pockets. Anything "out-of-print", no matter how lame, is typically WAAAY overpriced on either eBay or Amazon.

Dubious Chinese Sound?