What's the difference between "letterbox" and "widescreen"?<BR><BR>I just bought a Sony 34HS420 (it hasn't been delivered yet) and I'm assuming that most of my DVDs (which are "widescreen") will fill ...

It’s now the norm for us to watch TV programmes and films in our homes on widescreen displays. Yet this has been a norm for less than a decade now, in spite of widescreen TVs being around a lot longer ...

As movie buffs know, letterboxing provides home viewers with a genuine theatrical experience. Never mind the black bars at the top and bottom of your screen, a widescreen video is the only way — ...

The letterbox movement on television is slowly gaining ground. There now are at least four original series on network TV, and a few others on cable, that employ the format, in which the image is ...

OK, I watch letterbox DVDs on my 4:3 CRT monitor, black bands on top and bottom, that's fine with me (in fact, I refuse to watch full-screen versions, period).<BR><BR>What happens if I decide to get a ...

Apple's Mail email client is a great and widely used program that shows the mailboxes section to the left, with the message list and message viewer on top of each other to the right. While this layout ...

Letterboxes, the black boxes that appear on either the top and bottom or sides of film and television shows to preserve their original display format, have become so commonplace that most people don’t ...

This is kind of ridiculous. Philips’s new 56-inch LCD, bound for Europe, is boasting a 21:9 aspect ratio-displaying a full anamorphic 2.40:1 frame without letterboxing. But what about watching TV? Or ...