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Title: Bad compression
Review: Anamorphic compression is a technique used to compress 16/9 or wider screen movies before recording them onto Blu-rays or DVDs. It isn't needed for standard 4/3 movies like the Maltese Falcon. Yet the studio decided to project this 4/3 movie's image on a wide screen 16/9 frame and then compress it. This means you have to set you TV to 16/9 to watch this 4/3 movie, resulting in wide blank bands on the left and right. This means that 20-percent of the horizontal resolution capability of this Blu-ray disk is blank space, thrown away and wasted. Why the studio would do this to the greatest detective movie ever filmed makes no sense.Having said that, the movie does look better than DVD, though not as much better as it could, and the sound is much better. I enjoyed it, but still can't forgive the studio for cheating me by wasting much of the Blu-ray's capability.
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