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Neither were most of the filmmakers whose 1.85:1 movies were released by that studio (and Paramount, which did the same thing).

OPPO players and selected models from Panasonic and a few other brands do allow subtitle position movement, but that is unfortunately not a common feature. And when watching something on streaming, placement of subtitles is completely out of the user's control. Yes, text color or font blending...

Subtitles in the letterbox bars get cut off and are not readable by those of us with projection screens wider than 16:9. Subtitles belong inside the image, not in the letterbox bar.

Not to mention the directors that insist on switching around between all those aspect ratios shot-to-shot.

Yeah, I'm continually amused at people who get hung up on the difference between 1.33:1 and 1.37:1, or between 2.35:1 and 2.39:1 - as if they could ever possibly discern those subtleties by eye. Or as if those ranges weren't well within the acceptable projection tolerances for theatrical projection.

The first ever fully-letterboxed home video release was Fellini's Amarcord, on RCA's SelectaVision CED format in 1984.

Only if you're missing an eye. Most people have two, side by side on their face. :biggrin:

Those of us who were into Laserdisc at the time would disagree. :biggrin: I'm in a Laserdisc collector's group on Facebook and run into a surprising number of people who still have CRT TVs - under the logic that an analog standard-def video format is best watched on an analog standard-def...