Getting ready to purchase later next month my first HD TV,, and am now concerned about the few films left in My DVD Collection that I have not yet switched over to enhanced anamorphic.
So I'm curious to know exactly how terrible it they will look on a good 16 x 9 monitor.. Squeezed or just an improper border around the print..??
Title in question here is R&H's South Pacific., The 1999 version I have is quite nice for colors and the aspect ratio is true to its 2.20:1 , But it isn't enhanced and what would that entail on the screen?
Good / Bad or indiffer .. ??

If you are asking how your non-anamorphic 2.20:1 title will look on a HDTV, it will still have bars on the top and bottom of the screen (just not as large)

If you are asking about the PQ of the title on a HDTV, it will look worse unless you have a good internal scaler in the HDTV or a DVD upscaler.

If you are wondering what surface area an anamorphic title takes up on a HDTV, it's the entire screen with picture (almost like full screen movies for 4:3 TVs).

I hope one of these or any combination answers your question.

Quoting ajm:

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A good non-anamorphic image can look better than a bad anamorphic one.

Sure.  And a great VHS tape can look better than an awful DVD.

I don't think they look too bad myself.  With my equipment (and most I'd guess), I just have black bars all the way around the image.  Some equipment will allow you to zoom in on that if you want to get rid of the black bars.  Or you can just put up with it.  But it's never really bothered me too much.

A Full screen DVD will have Black Bars on the sides.  A Widescreen version won't.  But depending on the Aspect Ratio the Movie was filmed at, you may or may not have Black bars on the Top and bottom.  For Example a 1.85:1 or a 1.78:1 Film will fill your whole HDTV screen, when you get into like CinemaScope which a lot of blockbuster films are in you'll get the 2.40:1, etc that will have the Bars on the Top and Bottom.  This is Normal.  Even on a HD DVD or Blu-Ray Movie Disc.  Wither a film is Anamorphic or not won't affect this.

If you want to get rid of it, you can Expand the picture on your HDTV, which will fill up the whole screen, but of course doing that, you just cut off the picture on the left and right that you now can't see.  To me it's not a big deal that I'm not using the FULL screen as long as I can see the whole Film.  I've always for years gotten all my DVD's in Widescreen.  I HATE Pan & Scan.  To me that just ruins the Movie.  If your worried about not seeing such a large picture on a small screen, Get a Larger HDTV to make up the differance when having the Bars.  When I'm watching my HDTV I don't even notice or pay it any attention.