HP DVDs in wide screen vs full screen

[Theresa]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
<valerie.flowe at v...> wrote:
> OK, this is a tad off the HP topic, but as we are discussing wide 
vs. full 
> screen...I bought LOTR Return of the King extended for my sister 
for Christmas. 
> She really wanted full screen (we had the debate: she doesn't like 
the skinny 
> strip, and I like the additional info). But I could only find this 
version in 
> wide screen; so that's what she got. Just curious if anyone has 
seen it 
> available in both? I thought perhaps since true LOTR fanatics would 
buy this 
> latest superlong version, perhaps even in addition to the ROTK 
released 8 
> months ago, that they would gravitate towards the non-reformatted 
widescreen 
> version as Peter Jackson had originally filmed it??? 
> Valerie
> 
I purchased the boxed set of three films in extended version and all 
I saw at the stores was the widescreen. Personally, the black bars do 
not bother me even though I do not have a widescreen TV (would like 
one though).

Theresa