More Than Half a Picture

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More Than Half a Picture
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Slate’s got the good news...

Movie renters and the bone-headed Blockbuster video chain have finally realized that Widescreen is winning out.

Whew.

No more renting a DVD and coming home to the rude discovery that the copy you rented cuts off about half of the visuals.