Yesterday I watched an episode of WIld Wild West that featured Thayer David. I didn't recognize him at first, but I did recognize his voice. I realized that I had seen him in Journey to the Center of the Earth. And so I though "I wonder if I have him in anything else?"

Well, I did have a couple of other films, one of which is The Eiger Sanction. So I thought "I haven't seen that in a long time. It would be fun to rewatch it." After digging out the DVD and starting it I realized that it was non-anamorphic widescreen, and didn't look too good. And I decided there and then that it was time to get that movie on Blu-ray.

And then those fateful words popped up in my brain again. "I wonder if I have any more important films in non-anamorphic that I should get on blu if they're available". So I fired up my trusty ProfilerQuery to find all non-anamorphic DVDs with an aspect ratio greater than 1.7:1. Yeah, I could have included 1.66:1, but I felt that 1.7 and greater was enough. And to my horror I got 363 hits.

I looked at the titles, and found that a lot of them were quite recent releases, and I though "No effin' way that all those are non-anamorphic!" So I printed out a list of those titles and I began checking them, starting with my most recent purchases (purely because those were the easiest to find among my 6000+ titles). I checked the whole first page, and out of 51 titles, 28 were incorrect!  And to my embarrassment I found that a couple of them were my own contributions.

One thing that I realized when checking 51 titles was how much I hate forced messages, forced company logos and (thankfully quite few) forced trailers. This would have gone so much smoother if I had been able to get straight to the main menu.

Anyway, in the future I'll try to not think "I wonder ..." because it brings me so much work. 

If you can play R2 discs: an anamorphic release is available on DVD.

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( guess he doesn't  need any residual checks )    .. is True Lies (94)  and The Abyss (89 ) ..
 
any word on those coming to blu??

Same films I am waiting for...

I'd buy both those on blu in a heart beat. Why are you dragging your heels, James Cameron? 

True Lies and The Abyss have been available in 16x9 anamorphic widescreen DVD for years....region 6 (non bootleg)....all thats needed is a region free player or DVDFab Passkey on PC.

Usually Directors are not in charge of the creation of home video releases for their movies. Do you have information that this is a special case so that you both are blaming James Cameron for the delay?

Cameron is a special case among the special cases.