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Is widescreen getting wider?
I know tv use to be pretty much square. And then they went to wide screen, like a regular laptop screen shape. Now even laptop screenes have black bars and sometimes it seems like it is even wider screen than that. What is considered normal wide screen? Why are there some many different shapes? When will it stop?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
wide-screen (cinema) has always had a 16:9 aspect ratio. The only thing that has changed over time is the size of televisions, Keep in mind that TV's are also for watching television shows that are of smaller dimensions.
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- 8 years ago
I've seen examples of the black bars on movies constantly changing size. Some movies I can just stretch the image to the screen and it looks fine, other films like the one I'm watching now, if I stretch it to the window, it stretches the hell out of the picture length ways. I doubt this has anything to do with physical TV size or aspect ratio, if it did and if all widescreen movies were truly the same then all of them would look the same when I watch them. It seems like movie makers are deliberately making the black bars different sizes for that whole BS "cinema feel" which is ridiculous because back in the day I bought a widescreen TV just so I could get rid of those black bars and have a full screen picture, which a lot of movies are making impossible nowadays.
- 8 years ago
There are different form factors for widescreen. So it's not getting any wider, just more diverse.
