I was watching a promo on Turner Classics featuring directors such as Ron Howard praising the widescreen letterbox format for films, especially How The West Was Won. I purchased this DVD version of the film and felt ripped off both by Turner and Warner Brothers who released such a poorly transfered film to DVD. I remember this epic western and wanted to see the widescreen version on DVD. It was filmed with 3 cameras and you can see the seams between the 3 pictures throuighout the movie. Usually one of the 3 pictures was darker than the other 2. This was very distracting. Add film burn spots and that is enough for me to discard this DVD from my collection as unwatchable. The film deserves 4 stars, but this version only gets one star due to poor quality.