letterbox
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- noun
- /ˈlɛtərˌbɑks/
- Specialized
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formato panorámico
- There is almost no reason to make DVDs letterbox to display 16:9 anymore.
- letterbox format
Examples
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Many modern films are made with wide-screen images that look great in a theater but require a letterbox format—blacking out the top and bottom of the TV tube—to be properly viewed on video.
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The letterbox black bars you see here are not a problem in the image.
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The Kindle itself was unceremoniously pushed through the letterbox the following day.
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So one of the things that drives me most crazy is the black bars in letterboxed content when they're Gray.
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By Apple not changing the width of the screen, the application already developed on a 3.5-inch screen gets centered with a letterbox at the bottom and top.
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We've got scope of PECS on twitch chat saying letterbox equals no weird interpolation.
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And you would want your TV to be 4:3 like the iPad and the 2K/4K video standards, not wide like HD, so that widescreen content is shown in a wide letterbox with room above and below for captions, menus, and controls.
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You can also choose if you'd like 16:9 material displayed on 4:3 as letterbox or pan and scan (crop off sides).
Synonyms
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3.6
A screen or picture that is much wider than it is tall, like modern TVs
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Letterbox for film comes from the look of a wide picture on a narrower screen: black bars above and below make the image sit inside a long, thin 'box', like a door letterbox. Because of that visual, 'letterbox' now names the widescreen format that keeps the full width of the film.