Stir of Echoes is indeed in Letterbox format and not pan and scan - I watched it last night. I think Arisan meant that if you have a widescreen TV then no bars should be present as the image is cropped so that it fills the screen. They were pretty misleading I must admit. The image is neither 1.33:1 nor 1.85:1 - which is rather odd. I thought the quality of the transfer was pretty poor in the picture quality stakes and the film was more suited to a TV movie than a feature film. Nice use of the discrete channels though!