Jurassic Park DVD What's up with the widescreen?

[The Game]

When I purchased Jurassic Park on DVD, I opted to pick the widescreen version rather than the full-screen version, naturally because widescreen is typically superior. But here's the thing: the dvd isn't normal widescreen; there's no letterbox formatting, no black bars on the top and bottom- instead the whole picture is squished in and everything looks taller and skinnier than they are supposed to. What's up with this!?

[James Harvey]

Its the aspect ratio of the disc. JP is 1.85:1, so you may have to change the setting on your DVD to ge the dark space and the "normal looking" ratio.

[Vigo Sprax]

You must have your DVD player set to anamorphic mode, meaning for anamorphic DVDs it will output the picture without all or some of the black bars (depending on the ratio). Just change the setting to Standard 4:3 screen and the player should add the black bars for you.