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Title: Widescreen Screw-up
Review: House is a great show and Hugh Laurie gives us one of the most interesting characters since Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes. So why did Universal give the DVD release such slipshod treatment?The series was shot in High-Definition. The DVD box is labeled "Widescreen 1.78:1". Yet these DVDs are scaled down to the width of a 4:3 picture, losing 36% of the visual detail of an anamorphic DVD. The video looks like a postage stamp on widescreen TVs--thick black borders on all four sides!. What were they thinking? Was this a technical screw-up or was Universal so desperate to squeeze it onto three DVD's that they just threw quality out the window? I can't believe executive producer Bryan Singer would have signed off on this.
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