Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens. In...
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Widescreen baroque is a style of science fiction writing "characterized by larger-than-life characters, violence, intrigue, extravagant settings or actions...
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Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage...
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full screen, letterbox, widescreen, pillar-box, zoomed letterbox, etc. This development is related to introduction of widescreen TVs and broadcasts, with...
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Rupert Holmes (redirect from Widescreen (album))
a recording artist, Holmes broke through with his first album, 1974's Widescreen on Epic Records, which introduced him as a presenter of highly romantic...
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16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units. Once seen as an "exotic" aspect ratio, since 2009, it has become the...
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Ultrawide formats (redirect from Ultra widescreen)
other aspect ratios. Subsequently it became the universal standard for widescreen and high-definition television. Around 2007, cameras and non-television...
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cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio. It also...
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2006-05-21. Retrieved 2006-07-24. The Letterbox and Widescreen Advocacy Page American Widescreen Museum Widescreen Apertures and Aspect Ratios Aspect – combined...
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Display resolution standards (redirect from Widescreen Ultra eXtended Graphics Array)
aspect ratio broadcast TV shows, but also allowing better viewing of widescreen movies. However, around the year 2005, home entertainment displays (i...
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A widescreen aspect ratio was first seen in a movie in Paramount's Old Ironsides of 1926. A few years later in 1928 and '29, a fad broke out for such special...
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VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format that was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954...
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Letter-boxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original...
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Widescreen comics is a movement within the field of comic books named both for its very cinematic decompression style and its tendency to use panels of...
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lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1). All major HD broadcasting standards (such as SMPTE 292M)...
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was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format. Todd was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chaim Goldbogen...
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Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown in fullscreen proportions of a standard-definition 4:3 (1.33:1)...
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Wallpaper (computing) (redirect from Widescreen wallpapers)
A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.)...
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Lazy Afternoon (Barbra Streisand album) (redirect from Widescreen (song))
1975, with the track listing switching the order of "By the Way" and "Widescreen" around. Also a Cassette Tape version was issued. The album was finally...
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in the United States on March 29, 2002. The film was filmed in 2.40:1 widescreen. Jim Morris is the son of a career Navy man who moves the family from...
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Widescreen televisions provide several modes for displaying video from 4:3 (standard aspect ratio) sources. These modes may be selected manually from a...
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35 mm movie film (section Widescreen)
safer film base, formulated to capture color, has accommodated a bevy of widescreen formats, and has incorporated digital sound data into nearly all of its...
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video that was not originally designed for widescreen is shown on a widescreen display, or a narrower widescreen image is displayed within a wider aspect...
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required with the line height defining the aspect. For widescreen 16:9, 360 lines define a widescreen image and for traditional 4:3, 480 lines define an image...
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However, the film is broadcast in widescreen on Cartoon Network in the United States and released in widescreen on the Region A Blu-ray. Renee Schonfeld...
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Head-up display (redirect from Virtual widescreen)
flying using an early Specto head-up display Jaguar Unveils 'Virtual Widescreen' Technology to Assist Drivers – Latin Post The story of how all Miramar...
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televisions were built with an aspect ratio of 4:3 until the late 2000s, when widescreen TVs with 16:9 displays became the standard. This aspect ratio was chosen...
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rendering resolution. The terms were originally coined by members of the Widescreen Gaming Forum. Hor+ (horizontal plus) is the most common scaling method...
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a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses during the widescreen boom in the 1950s, Panavision expanded its product lines to meet the demands...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose...
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