Posted by Mark Spatny on 10/23/05 06:52

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:21:56 -0700, "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:

>>> but it isn't a good thing. I've never seen a letterboxed picture in a
>>> movie theater.
>>
>> You've never seen a 4:3 movie in a theater then... the ones that still
>> have curtains don't open them all the way so as to frame the smaller
>> image.

A 4:3 image in a widescreen frame, with black bars on the sides, is
more accurately referred to as pillar boxing, not letter boxing.

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