Recently I brought Ellen the West Wing box set, and we've been working our way through the series. Last night we started watching series 3, which is the series where they switched to widescreen. No problem you think, widescreen is common on DVDs and with a nice big widescreen tv I should get a great picture. Rather than make the picture widescreen, the DVD has a 4:3 image with black bars on the top and bottom. Not only that, but the image isn't even in the center of the 4:3 image so the TV's zoom function chops off the top of the picture!
Grr.