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	Anamorphic Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Anamorphic widescreen frames also come as a 4:3 picture size, but there is a difference - the picture fills the full height of the screen with no borders.
		Anamorphic pictures fill the full vertical height of the screen to start with, so the picture only needs stretching by the TV horizontally to restore the original ratio.
		Anamorphic frames cannot be displayed on a normal 4:3 television without the picture appearing squashed at the sides.
	www.home-cinema-guide.co.uk /wide4.htm (259 words)

	Anamorphic video explained
		Invariably this means a rectangular widescreen presentation and it's a different viewing proposition when compared to the more or less square images we are restricted to with VHS tape movies and conventional television broadcasts.
		Anamorphic enhancement is all about getting the maximum quality out of DVD movie images and in particular the most picture and best quality on the newly emerging widescreen televisions format It's sometimes called '16:9 enhancement'.
		Anamorphic technology works with widescreen televisions and while these are relatively expensive at present the format is seen by many as the future in home theatre, and could even be the television standard, being spurred on by DVD and other digital entertainment systems emerging at the moment, particularly digital television broadcasting.
	www.virtualmags.com.au /Sofa/technology/anamorphic.htm (905 words)

	What is Anamorphic Widescreen?
		Anamorphic widescreen can refer to either a technique of motion picture cinematography that captures a widescreen image on standard 35mm film, or a similar principle applied to DVD recordings to allow for the best picture quality possible.
		Anamorphic widescreen was first used in motion picture cinematography in the 1950s.
		The television, much like an anamorphic projection lens, restores the anamorphic widescreen image to its original proportions and, depending on the aspect ratio of the film, displays smaller or no fl bars because both the television screen and movie are widescreen.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-anamorphic-widescreen.htm (512 words)

	Widescreen Museum - Anamorphic Photography Explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the case of the motion picture, anamorphic lenses squeeze a wide image onto a narrow film frame.
		Anamorphic lenses are referred to by their compression (or expansion, in the case of projection optics) ratio.
		The film image is expanded by the anamorphic projection lens, yielding an undistorted picture on the wide screen.
	www.widescreenmuseum.com /widescreen/squeeze.htm (258 words)

	anamorphic
		Widescreen films are made several ways but anamorphic widescreen is the best alternative those film makers who do not want to move to some exotic format sized medium or who do not want to waste resolution by croping of the top and bottom of their image making a letterbox wide screen..
		An anamorphic lens, with a 2:1 compression was placed in front of the camera thereby resulting in a tall skinny image on the flat image format, 1.33:1, film which could be 35mm, 16mm, or even 70mm.
		Upon projection, an anamorphic lens with a compression of 1:2 was placed in front of the projector which would stretch out the image from the film to be twice as wide as it is on the film.
	owyheesound.com /anamorphic/anamorphic.html (1884 words)

	House - Difference between Widescreen and Anamorphic Widescreen (with studio statement)
		Widescreen releases, anamorphic or not, will contain fl bars on the top and bottom of 4:3 TVs since the aspect ratio of the show and the TV are different.
		Widescreen TVs have become more popular in the past 2 years, especially with the push towards HDTV occurring in the United States.
		The menu was used to illustrate the different between widescreen and anamorphic widescreen titles since it was material related to the title which was released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
	www.tvshowsondvd.com /newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3997 (815 words)

	Hong Kong Fanatic: Intro to Widescreen
		The widescreen format became the standard in hollywood and the rest of the world, while the ratios do vary, movies for the most part, are viewed in widescreen.
		The widescreen TV ratio, 1.77:1 is the average ratio between the smallest (1.33:1 Standard TV) and the largest (2.35:1 Theater) ratio.
		When the anamorphic image is passed to a widescreen TV with a resolution of 640x480 it can now use the extra 120 horizontal lines of resolution to fill in the picture and make scan lines if any less noticable.
	hkfanatic.com /widescreen/anamorphic/anamorphic.php (995 words)

	Anamorphic DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Not to be confused with the anamorphic filming process, Anamorphic DVD is a way to bring more lines of resolution to the film picture for those with widescreen televisions or computer monitors.
		But when an anamorphic 1.85:1 image is shown on a 16:9 television, 461 scan lines are used for the film and only 19 are thrown away in the fl bars.
		The anamorphic picture on a DVD is essentially stored in a squeezed form compared to the 4:3 standard.
	home1.gte.net /res0mrb7/widescreen/anamorphic.html (1122 words)

	Anamorphic DVD Explained [SMR]
		If one has a 16:9 "Widescreen" television or projector, this image is then increased in size to fill the entire screen.
		Gone are the fl bars top and bottom (depending on the ratio of the image, PanaVision titles can still have fl bars due to their extreme width in comparison to their height) but the resolution remains the same, the picture has the same number of horizontal lines as it would on a 4:3 television.
		Many modern "Widescreen" 16:9 televisions and projectors have viewing modes which enable the user to correct the ratio of the image.
	www.smr-home-theatre.org /anamorphic/Anamorphic.html (804 words)

	The Ultimate Guide To Anamorphic Widescreen Dvd by Bill Hunt
		Simply put, anamorphic widescreen is a special feature of DVD, that means that the video on the disc packs the most resolution possible by the TV standards of today and the near future.
		That means that we prefer to view widescreen movies in the letterbox format (in which the ENTIRE film image is presented, and fl bars fill the unused screen area at the top and bottom of the frame).
		Anamorphic widescreen DVD is all about giving you the most lines of picture resolution (and thus quality), while still allowing you to watch widescreen movies as they were meant to be seen.
	www.btinternet.com /~harrisom/16x9 (3281 words)

	Anamorphic widescreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If shooting in widescreen picture format, without an anamorphic lens, the available film area is not used completely; some of the film surface is wasted on the frame lines.
		The modern anamorphic widescreen format has an aspect ratio of 2.39 to 1 (2.39:1), meaning the picture width is 2.39 times its height.
		Anamorphic widescreen was attractive to studios because of its similar high aspect ratio (Cinerama was 2.59) without the disadvantages that came with the Cinerama format's simultaneous reels and the complexity of synchronizing these reels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anamorphic_widescreen (2977 words)

	The Blurred Horizon Press: Widescreen Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The difference between Todd AO and Camera 65 was that this process used a slight 1.25 anamorphic squeeze during photography and a similar lens to unsqueeze the image during projection.
		Widescreen movies were originally created as a response to the competition of TV in the early 50s.
		In films made in true widescreen processes, such as CinemaScope or Todd AO, close to half of the image would be lost, and it would be necessary to have a technician 'pan and scan' the image to follow the important parts of the image.
	www.underview.com /bhpress/ws.html (5724 words)

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		When watching a widescreen DVD on a widescreen TV, there may be very small fl lines on the top and bottom to maintain the original aspect ratio.
		The term anamorphic is a bit of a misnomer when used in reference to DVD, but the term is becoming the de facto standard term when describing an "enhanced" DVD because it uses the same principle as anamorphic film.
		The anamorphic DVD process is great for capturing the full resolution and clarity of the original image, but without a way of "unsqueezing" the image, there is no way to take advantage of an anamorphic DVD.
	www.audiolinks.nl /anamorphic.htm (2332 words)

	Widescreen TV
		Widescreen TV uses an aspect ratio of 16:9, compared with the common TV aspect ratio of 4:3.
		Widescreen is an option on a widescreen set that stretches out a 4:3 broadcast to fill up the whole screen.
		Widescreen TV users can choose the 'Widescreen' mode, and the image is stretched proportionately to fill the 16:9 screen.
	www.mindspring.com /~jonfoulkes/ws.html (872 words)

	World's Easiest Explanation of Anamorphic 16:9 Widescreen Enhancement in DVDs
		Widescreen televisions are about 1.78 times as wide as they are tall, or 16:9.
		So, although it's possible to make an anamorphic DVD of a 1.66:1 movie, most studios probably won't until widescreen television sets are much more common than they are at thetime of this writing in January 1999, unless enough people complain to studios that they want them anamorphic now.
		More frequently, they frame their shots for widescreen but include the extra film negative at the top and bottom, simply making sure to exclude such distractions as microphones, edges of sets, stagehands lying on the floor holding up props, etc. This is called "Soft Matte".
	gregl.net /videophile/anamorphic.htm (3593 words)

	The Letterbox and Widescreen Advocacy Page
		The problem with regular widescreen images on a widescreen TV is that to fit the width of the screen, you have to zoom in on the entire image.
		When an anamorphic DVD is played on a regular TV and your DVD player is set for a 16:9 TV, that extra information is restored; however, because that image is meant to be stretched by a 16:9 TV, the result will be that people look thin and anorexic and circles look like tall ovals.
		When an anamorphic DVD is played on a widescreen TV and your DVD player is set for 16:9 TVs, that extra information is restored giving you a picture that properly fits the width of the screen but without having to increase the size of the pixels.
	www.widescreen.org /dvd_anamorphic.shtml (597 words)

	Anamorphic Widescreen (MKV) - Hydrogenaudio Forums
		I thought that the point of anamorphic resolutions was to overcome the limitations of mod16.
		Anamorphic playback basically means stretching the horizontal resolution to make the aspect ratio correct.
		The anamorphic resize doesn't have to be mod16 horizontally but the encoded file does.
	www.hydrogenaudio.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=30149 (1366 words)

	Anamorphic Widescreen
		The original anamorphic process compresses a widescreen image so that it will fit into a standard size film frame.
		Because the process is such a pain to use a process called Vista Vision was created that is a non-anamorphic widescreen that uses a 35-mm process.
		There is enough width to create widescreen movies without having to compress the material using the anamorphic lens.
	www.scifi2k.com /misc_html/articles/aricle_anamorphic.html (429 words)

	The Letterbox and Widescreen Advocacy Page
		The widescreen or letterbox process is a method by which a movie can be seen on a TV screen the way that the movie was seen in theatres by maintaining its original aspect ratio or OAR.
		The widescreen or letterbox process takes the entire frame and reduces the size in proportion so that the entire frame fits within the width of the TV.
		Yes, you have a smaller visual portion, but you are seeing the movie the way that you saw it in theatres, which is almost always the way that film makers want the movie to be seen.
	www.widescreen.org /widescreen.shtml (631 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Reader Mail for December 1, 1999
		With no anamorphic widescreen discs some of these scan lines are used to create the fl bars for letterboxing, effectively wasting them.
		In terms of numbers, a 1.85:1 film in non anamorphic widescreen uses only 345 of the visible 480 lines while a 1.85:1 image in anamorphic widescreen uses 461 of the visible 480.
		On a widescreen display there is no way possible for a disc with 33% fewer scan lines to look better than an anamorphic widescreen disc in optimum conditions (i.e., with a widescreen set), and that's why a non-anamorphic widescreen title cannot rate as high at DVDFILE.
	www.dvdfile.com /news/viewpoints/reader_mail/1999/12_1.htm (1859 words)

	What is Anamorphic DVD ?
		Widescreen TVs minimize this letterboxing appearance and less of the TV screen is wasted on the fl bars because a widescreen TV is closer to the aspect ratio of widescreen movies.
		A widescreen TV can still magnify the letterbox image to fill most of the screen, but magnification does not increase the number of lines of resolution.
		But an anamorphic DVD still insures better image quality for movies older than 2-3 years because the studio must make a new video transfer of the movie to make an anamorphic DVD.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/Misc/anamorphic_dvd.htm (821 words)

	The Widescreen Format (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I don't know what it's like in other countries, but in the UK the vast majority of national retail stores know little about widescreen televisions, or how they are used, even though they display hundreds of different models.
		For the benefit of those new to widescreen, including widescreen television retailers, this section explains the widescreen format in home entertainment terms, with particular attention to the use of a widescreen television with both widescreen and full-screen (4:3) presentations.
		Each can be presented on either a 4:3 or 16:9 widescreen television, but the appearance and quality will differ depending on which television you are using with any given picture format.
	www.home-cinema-guide.co.uk /wide1.htm (197 words)

	Anamorphic Widescreen Explained
		The ability to have an anamorphic widescreen picture, also known as an "enhanced for 16:9 television sets" widescreen picture, is one of the most important features a DVD Video can have.
		An anamorphic widescreen picture (from now on referenced as an anamorphic picture), provides the best possible picture quality on a widescreen television.
		By providing an anamorphic picture on a DVD Video today, you can take advantage of the increased picture quality of tomorrow's (or today's) widescreen television sets.
	www.sonic.net /~fli/movies/dvd/anamorphic.htm (647 words)

	Hi Fi Writer - What is 'anamorphic video'?
		Perhaps the most esoteric of them all is 'Anamorphic' (also known as 'enhanced for widescreen TVs' and '16:9 enhanced').
		To make use of this otherwise wasted space, an anamorphic widescreen DVD vertically stretches the picture by one third during transfer to DVD so that it uses a bigger chunk of the available storage space.
		Widescreen TVs universally offer a 'zoom' feature of some kind that will take a letterboxed widescreen movie and expand it to fill the screen.
	www.hifi-writer.com /he/anamorphic/anamorphic.htm (751 words)

	DVDown Under Article - Anamorphic Widescreen Letterboxed vs Pan & Scan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The widescreen or 16x9 TV has the aspect ratio of (1.78:1), now as you may have noticed that is not as big as the theatre format of (2.35:1) but the fl letterboxed bars were there but much smaller.
		With anamorphic widescreen, the picture is stretched ONLY in the horizontal plane.
		Anamorphic produces better pictures on widescreen TVs because there is more information recorded in the vertical plane (ie, more lines) whereas a letterbox has fewer lines recorded (basically, letterbox image is not as tall as anamorphic image prior to stretching by widescreen TV).
	dvdownunder.com.au /news/articles/ltbx--ps.htm (960 words)

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