Widescreen DVD?


What's up with the DVD being widescreen? Shouldn't a made-for-TV movie from 1993 be in 1.33:1? Or was it originally filmed for theatre and then decided to show it on TV instead?

Can anyone compare to the original and see if it's been cropped or not? When they showed it last night on SciFi (erm, excuse me, I mean Syfy) it was widescreen, but stations do that to everything these days...even if it means cropping the sides off of a letterbox movie to get it to 16:9 >_<

If it was cropped, it didn't look very obvious.

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just checked the ratio with my VLC media player it is 1:85 ananmorphic .,
I'd imagine it was shot in 1:85 and then studio decided to play on North American TV and European theatre houses ...

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