PS3 goes BD 2.0 and much more with 2.20

[Kyros]

"Hit the zoom key and leave my fucking movies alone."

Thats exactly what I want. I do not want them encoded in Pan&Scan but I want an option to watch them in Pan&Scan Mode. (Which is possible on 4:3 TVs but not on 16:9 in the PS3) On a 720p TV with 1080p BD you wouldn't even have to upscale anything

"That shit has to be done manually for each movie to make sure important things aren't cut out of frame. "

Pan&Scan information (i.e. where the optimal center of a scene is for zooming) is encoded in the DVD standard and pretty sure also in the BD standard.

"Thank god they're doing it right this time around and no longer listening to people who complain about the black bars on the tv screen.

As I said I don't want the discs reencoded. And complete Pan&Scan (i.e. no black bars at all on 4:3 TVs) are stupid for most movies because you loose too much. On the other hand the complete 2:35:1 encoding on discs is also terrible because you only use half the screen and have a small slot surrounded by black. (On smaller TVs and DVD players without decent zoom DVDs look like shit you cannot even see the faces anymore. On my old TV I always enjoyed the movie on TV more than on DVd because they reencoded it at a sensible 16:9 with modest black bars. Nothing is happening in the outer edges of the screen anyway because even many cinemas are not really 2.35:1.

Just because one extreme is right the other is not better.