Nimbus

From what I've been able to gather, both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are not capable of anamorphic display-- they are letterbox only.

This means the maximum number of lines for a 2.35:1 movie in either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is 817. Apparently the specifications for both formats is completed and therefore there will never be anamorphic formats for either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray because the specs don't include it.

That would mean that 817 lines of resolution would be used for the "movie", while the balance of 263 lines would be used for "black bars".

Is this true?

I think this was mentioned before somewhere, but I thought if anyone knew we could clear it up and get it into one of the HD FAQs here.