letterboxed

( 'letterboxed') or cropped to a 4: 3 frame, otherwise your showreel will be distorted by the encoding process.

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Regular 35mm upconverts like “Star Trek” have the letterboxed look throughout the entire movie.

Aziz Ansari causes IMAX furor: Read the facts here. » Scene-Stealers 2009

But then I've loved all the Justice Leagues (well except for those crappy NON-anamorphic, letterboxed dvds that Warner put out: P) seandps has anyone had any luck finding the 12.99 blu ray titles at Target?

This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: The Informant!, The Box, The Damned United, Dead Snow, and More | /Film 2010

Where photos could fill the rectangular screen of the last Nano, here they often appear letterboxed in the square screen, making the image even smaller.

First Look: The iPod Nano loses its mojo 2010

I think along with the combination of the size and clarity like you mentioned, that thumping sound on the soundtrack, plus the scope of the actual shot (a huge expansive cityscape with the tracking movement already in motion towards the glass building), plus the switch between the 35mm letterboxed flames/batsignal into the huge IMAX format instantaneously just made that an awesomely impacting opening.

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For decades, movies were butchered on VHS and shown on TV in horribly altered versions dubbed pan and scan because networks worried that people would freak out if a movie was letterboxed so it could be seen in its original format.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: Scott Pilgrim ! Bing ! Sherlock ! And More! Michael Giltz 2010

For decades, movies were butchered on VHS and shown on TV in horribly altered versions dubbed pan and scan because networks worried that people would freak out if a movie was letterboxed so it could be seen in its original format.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: Scott Pilgrim ! Bing ! Sherlock ! And More! Michael Giltz 2010

Where photos could fill the rectangular screen of the last Nano, here they often appear letterboxed in the square screen, making the image even smaller.

First Look: The iPod Nano loses its mojo 2010

That "comparison" image is on every post about this topic around the Internet, and nobody seems to mention that for almost every movie TDK being an exception to this it is invalid: a film that wasn't shot in IMAX will be letterboxed when projected onto the huge IMAX screens.

IMAX Claims 98% Of Moviegoers Don’t Notice The Difference… Yeah, Right! | /Film 2009

Dark Knight for most of the feature was letterboxed and you could barely tell because the screen was enormous.

IMAX Claims 98% Of Moviegoers Don’t Notice The Difference… Yeah, Right! | /Film 2009