Look up: Widescreen

1. Widescreen
   The term widescreen is used to describe a variety of forms of film projection in which the aspect ratio (width-to-height proportion) of the picture is greater than the 4:3 format adopted as standard. Originally, one object of the ultra-large screen was to stimulate peripheral vision and thus give an illusion of 3-D which the smaller screen lacked.
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2. Widescreen
   General term for screen displays with a wider aspect ratio than the 4:3 aspect ratio employed by conventional TV broadcast channels. HDTV employs a 16:9 aspect ratio. Most feature films also employ widescreen aspect ratios, some times greater than 16:9.
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3. Widescreen
   When used to describe a TV, widescreen generally refers to an aspect ratio of 16:9, which is the optimum ratio for viewing DVDs and HDTV broadcasts.
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4. widescreen
   A film or television programme whose aspect ratio is wider than that of 4:3, the standard shape for pre-1950s films and non-widescreen television. Although experiments with widescreen formats date back to the 19th century, they first became popular in the 1950s, as cinemas attempted to stave off com...
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5. WIDESCREEN
   Standard NTSC or PAL video uses an aspect ratio of 4:3. Most film features are shot in a wider-screen aspect ratio. Some cameras include an option for shooting in a 16:9 aspect ratio. However, these modes are not actually any wider. Rather, they are just copped 4:3 images.
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6. Widescreen
   A general term for film presentation in which a film is shown in an aspect ratio of greater than 1.33 to 1. In today's terms, this now means in an aspect ratio of greater than 1.85 to 1.
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7. Widescreen
   When used to describe a TV, widescreen generally refers to an aspect ratio of 16:9, which is the optimum ratio for viewing anamorphic DVDs and HDTV broadcasts.
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8. Widescreen
   A video image wider than the standard 1.33 (4:3) aspect ratio. When referring to DVD or HDTV, widescreen usually indicates a 1.78 (16:9) aspect ratio.
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9. Widescreen
   `Widescreen` images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film. For television, the original screen ratio fo...
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