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 ...

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 ...

Should ”ER” and ”West Wing” air in widescreen? I was watching ”Band of Brothers” on HBO in widescreen (otherwise known as letterbox format), and decided to flip over to its full-screen simulcast on ...

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 ...

Once almost an exclusive feature of laserdiscs, letterboxing is now getting a big boost in the videotape market. Leading the push is Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, which has recently ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Call it snob appeal with a vengeance. Lovers of the art of motion-picture photography can be overbearing when they snootily complain about the desecration wrought by television on the way a ...