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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | Anamorphic widescreen is a video technique that utilizes rectangular (wide) pixels to store a widescreen picture into standard 4:3 aspect ratio. In its current understanding as a video term, it was originally devised for widescreen television sets with a 16:9 aspect ratio, however it has been used in regular film movies for decades. Anamorphic format is a term which can be used either for the cinematography technique of capturing a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film, or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio, or a photographic projection format in which the original image requires an optical anamorphic...
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DVDs using anamorphic widescreen are very similar to anamorphic film negatives, where the rectangular image is optically-squeezed (horizontally) to fit inside the almost-square storage space. When viewed on standard 4:3 televisions without adjustment, the anamorphic image will look compressed, such that the actors look exceptionally thin or tall (and a circle will appear as a vertical oval). Changing the DVD player's menu to the "4:3 letterbox" setting will digitally-insert black bars to the top/bottom of the image, thus eliminating the distortion and allowing the movie to be viewed in letterbox format. DVD-Video format logo DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD (DVD-ROM) discs, and is currently the dominant form of consumer video formats in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. ...
Most video DVDs include a data marker that automatically selects the best aspect ratio for the video to be displayed. This way, the full area of a 16:9 widescreen TV set can be utilized without changing the resolution of video DVDs. However, sources wider than 16:9 (e.g., the common cinema 1.85:1 or superwide 2.35:1 aspect ratio), must still be letterboxed to the 16:9 frame with thin black bars. For the mail collector, see letter box. ...
Note that neither 720x480 (1.5:1) nor 720x576 (1.25:1) are in 4:3 (1.3333:1) display aspect ratio. Instead each pixel can have a "narrow" aspect ratio of 1.1:1 in the standard 4:3 full-frame display, or a "wide" ratio of 1.421:1 for 16:9 widescreen.
DVDs with a 16:9 aspect ratio are typically labeled "anamorphic widescreen", "enhanced for 16:9", "enhanced for widescreen televisions" or similar, though currently there is no labeling standard. Otherwise, the movie will only support the standard full-frame display and will simply be "letterboxed".
Packaging  MGM Anamorphic DVD Packaging Sample.  Universal Anamorphic DVD Packaging Sample. There has been no clear standardization for companies to follow regarding the advertisement of anamorphically enhanced widescreen DVD's. Some companies such as Universal include the aspect ratio of the movie. Below are how various companies advertise their anamorphic DVD movies on their packaging: The aspect ratio of a two-dimensional shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. ...
Note: Contrary to some of statements on this page, 35mm theatrical releases are not the only releases. a 1,33:1, 1,73:1 and 1,85:1 anamorphic widescreen DVD is a 35mm original "widescreen" theatrical release. 2,53:1 is a 70mm original theatrical "letterbox" (i.e. T2:Judgement Day was filmed in 70mm)release notorious for populating wider screen theaters like Sony theaters. Both forms exist in commercial movies today in addition to the specialty 120mm Imax format. The differences in letterbox and widescreen have been denoted throughout their history on VHS tapes as the amount of viewable black bars long before widescreen TVs and Digital media gave way to larger viewable aspect ratios. Letterbox movies were more compressed having larger black bar areas. 16:9 enhanced simply means that it has been encoded for the media device and TV/Monitor to recognize and play in an uncompressed viewing mode taking full advantage of a widescreen device. Any movie played in 4:3 full screen will result in cropping on the left and right sides of the movie leaving vertical black bars on a widescreen tv. Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...
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Film Most commercial cinematic presentations are recorded onto standard 35mm 4:3 aspect ratio film, using an anamorphic lens to horizontally compress all footage into a 4:3 frame, where an anamorphic lens on the movie theatre projector ultimately corrects the picture. See anamorphic format for details. Anamorphic format is a term which can be used either for the cinematography technique of capturing a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film, or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio, or a photographic projection format in which the original image requires an optical anamorphic...
Television Major digital television channels in Europe (for example, the five major UK terrestrial channels) carry anamorphic widescreen programming in standard definition. In almost all cases, 4:3 programming is also transmitted on the same channel. The SCART switching signal can be used by a set-top-box to inform the television which kind of programming (4:3 or anamorphic) is currently being received, so that the television can change modes appropriately. The user can often elect to display widescreen programming in a 4:3 letterbox format instead of pan and scan if they do not have a widescreen television. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
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