Widescreen

Technology / Television (TV) / Widescreen: A term given to picture displays with a wider aspect ratio than your standard analog TV. Digital HDTV or SDTV is referred to as '16:9 widescreen.' Most motion pictures also have a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. Most digital tvs have screens wider than they are tall (for every 9 vertical inches, a DTV screen is 16 inches wide).
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16:9 Widescreen Photo Mode

Technology / Digital Cameras / 16:9 Widescreen Photo Mode: Many digital cameras offer this mode to let you take photos that have the same shape as a 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen TV. This size is ideal if you plan on showing your pictures on your high-def set, MORE

Letterbox

Technology / Television (TV) / Letterbox: A process by which a widescreen film is presented on video. The top and bottom of the video frame is blackened, and the widescreen film frame is reduced to fit into this frame-within-the-video-frame. MORE

Pillarbox

Technology / Television (TV) / Pillarbox: The effect of displaying a traditional (4:3 aspect ratio) image on a widescreen (16:9) monitor. In order to preserve the aspect ratio of the original video content, the picture is scaled so that it fi MORE