I am happy to announce...

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The wide screen gives you a higher resolution for anamorphic DVDs. When they're displayed on a regular 4:3 display then you lose picture information, but when displayed on a 16:9 tv then you get more lines of resolution. So even if you have a 60 inch 4:3 HDTV, you're not going to see as many lines of resolution in a widescreen picture as you would with a 40 inch 16:9 HDTV. Widescreen tvs don't cut information from the top and bottom, but rather they add more picture information to the sides.

And in case you were wondering, almost all widescreen DVDs are anamorphic.