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	Widescreen Gamer - Home
		Asus is getting in on the widescreen LCD game, with a low-end 19" unit with a resolution of 1440x900.
		I think the vast majority of PC Gamers using widescreen monitors are using it.
		There are several options, each with its own pros and cons, and we go through all of them.
	www.widescreengamer.com (506 words)

	widescreen: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
		Images are suitable for widescreen desktop backgrounds; various resolutions are included below.
		Due to file sizes, please do not direct-link to these images.
		CircuitCity.com has the HP Pavilion DV6646US 15.4" Widescreen Laptop PC on sale this week for $900 - $50 rebate [Exp 1/5/08] - $150 rebate [Exp 11/10] = $700 with free shipping.
	www.technorati.com /tag/widescreen (547 words)

	Amazon.com: The Da Vinci Code (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition): DVD: Tom Hanks,Audrey Tautou,Ian McKellen,Jean ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.
		Ice Age - The Meltdown (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Queen Latifah
		I found the movie enjoyable and thought provoking.
	www.amazon.com /Vinci-Code-Widescreen-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B00005JOC9 (2809 words)

	The Letterbox and Widescreen Advocacy Page
		Widescreen TVs are TVs that have a wider screen size than standard TVs.
		This can also be used to counter-act the actions of some cable channels who attempt to show widescreen shows, often documentaries, that are filmed in 16:9 but are left horizontally compressed because they want to show the full frame but without fear of a backlash because of the "dreaded fl bars".
		It is very possible for continual viewing of widescreen images to damage a TV by causing uneven wear on the phosphors.
	www.widescreen.org /widescreen_tv_qa.shtml (1182 words)

	Widescreen
		Widescreen is approximately twice as wide as it is high.
		This is the same part of the funeral scene as shown by SKY television on the night of the 7th of July 1998.
		In order to try to please both groups, and to allow for future widescreen presentations, some television productions (such as "An unsuitable job for a woman") are recorded in the widescreen 16:9 ratio but with the main action framed to take place in the centre of the shot.
	www.heyrick.co.uk /ricksworld/movies/widescreen.html (796 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Widescreen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A widescreen image is a film image with a greater aspect ratio than the ordinary 35 millimeter frame.
		The aspect ratio of a standard 35 millimeter frame is around 1.37:1, although cinematographers may use only the part of the frame which will be visible on a television screen (which is 1.33:1 for standard television).
		Widescreen TV Historically, consumer TVs have been 4:3 and since many U.S. TV viewers seem to prefer to see a TV screen completely filled with image, U.S. TV stations often show widescreen movies with sides truncated, using a technique called pan and scan.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Widescreen (1289 words)

	Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some people argue that widescreen is actually a disadvantage when showing objects that are tall instead of panoramic, others say that natural vision is more panoramic than tall, and therefore widescreen is easier on the eye.
		Furthermore, computer and laptop widescreen displays are in the 16:10 aspect ratio both physically in size and in pixel counts, and not in 16:9 of consumer televisions, leading to further complexity.
		This was a result of widescreen computer display engineers' uninformed assumption that people viewing 16:9 content on their computer would prefer that an area of the screen be reserved for playback controls or subtitles, as opposed to viewing content full-screen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Television (3976 words)

	Widescreen - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A widescreen image is a film or television image with a wider aspect ratio than the standard frame that developed during the classical Hollywood cinema.
		One rationale for widescreen is that, since the human eye has a field of view that extends farther to the sides than it does above or below, a widescreen image makes more effective use of the field of view, thereby producing a more immersive viewing experience.
		Widescreen TV Historically, consumer TVs have been 4:3 and since many U.S. TV viewers seem to prefer to see a TV screen completely filled with image, U.S. television networks often show widescreen movies with the sides truncated, using a technique called pan and scan.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Widescreen (1671 words)

	mb21 - ether.net - TV - Widescreen
		True widescreen tv uses all of the transmitted picture area and is intended for viewers who have widescreen tv sets but, crucially, the set-top box decoders allow viewers with traditional 4:3 sets to choose between two ways of showing the widescreen picture on their sets.
		They can see widescreen programmes letterboxed, with fl bars top and bottom, or they can fill their screen by 'zooming' in to the centre of the widescreen picture (this is known as 'centre cut-out').
		Some sceptics still fail to see the point of widescreen, arguing that it is of no benefit to some types of programme but ultimately there is no denying that 16:9 is a more pleasing shape and that there is no programme which fails to benefit from being viewed on a larger screen.
	www.mb21.co.uk /ether.net/tv/widescreen.shtml (1321 words)

	Widescreen
		In the UK all new material is now shot and broadcast in widescreen and converted to 4:3 format for analogue transmission which are scheduled to cease transmissions in the next few years.
		Widescreen televisions have been on the market for years, but until recently, they suffered from a lack of suitable widescreen material.
		Widescreen televisions allow viewers to watch a film in a format that is closer to how the director intended it to be seen.
	www.flyingpictureslive.com /cameras/widescreen.html (1126 words)

	NMEDIAC : The Widescreen Aesthetic in Online Advertising
		Historically, widescreen processes were initially deployed by the fledgling film industry as part of the battery economic life preservers in the fight against television in the early 1950s.
		To fully examine what widescreen means and how it became endowed with those meanings, it is useful to examine the film studies’ literature with regard to scholarship on widescreen, as well as criticism of the widescreen aesthetic in online content concerning both advertising and even video games.
		Bazin and others prophesied that this lack of montage in widescreen films would create a new kind of cinematic experience — one where the filmmakers did not guide the spectator’s gaze, but rather viewers were liberated and free to roam about the wide visual field.
	www.ibiblio.org /nmediac/winter2004/cossar.html (5182 words)

	Why Go Widescreen?
		Widescreen is considered to be a more natural view for humans, more closely simulating the way we see the world than the "tunnel vision" view of 4:3.
		However the inevitability of widescreen means that the move must be made sooner or later.
		Widescreen provides more options for split-screen images; for example, two simultaneous camera views or devoting part of the screen to graphics.
	www.mediacollege.com /video/aspect-ratio/why-widescreen.html (765 words)

	Widescreen Primer Part 1
		The purpose of this article is to explain in clear, understandable terms exactly what widescreen is, how it affects the consumer, and how it works in the context of the home video environment.
		The two ideas that have stood the test of time are multi-channel audio and widescreen projection, which is the one we'll be concerning ourselves with during this series of articles.
		Note the carefully composed widescreen shots on the left, emphasizing the smallness of the humans in relation to the enormous, carefully framed and symmetrical backgrounds.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Articles/WidescreenPrimer/WidescreenPrimer1.html (1148 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.
		Widescreen TV's have been around for many years but are now catching on with the advent of DVD and HDTV.
		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.
	hkfanatic.com /widescreen/anamorphic/anamorphic.php (995 words)

	American Widescreen Society
		It is universally accepted that Widescreen is any projected format that is wider than the 'standard' 1.33:1 aspect ratio format as established by the famous American inventor Thomas Alva Edison with his cinema movie system.
		Although, not completely Widescreen all the way across the screen in one image, he still used the three areas of the screen with individual images to show various aspects of action in the film, and the 3-way split emphasized vaious action points in the film, as well as shift the viewer's attention across the screen.
		Widescreen has been employed by multi-media presentations by using several slide projectors and using a technique of precise matching & overlapping of the wide image by a "soft edge" masking.
	members.aol.com /Super8mm/AWS.html (1729 words)

	TV Home
		Widescreen pictures are broadcast in a way that widens the viewing angle so that it more closely matches the natural human visual field.
		One of the significant world-wide standards to be agreed was that widescreen TV would be universally based on an aspect ratio of 16:9.
		When a programme is being transmitted in 4:3, such as archive programmes that were originally made in 4:3, the widescreen receiver will automatically switch to 4:3 and the viewer will experience small fl curtains to the left and right hand sides of the screen.
	www.rte.ie /tv/widescreen.html (800 words)

	Aspect Ratio and Widescreen TVs
		Widescreen TV has an aspect ratio of 16:9, or 1.76 inches wide for every inch high (referred to as 1.76:1).
		Since the aspect ratio is of widescreen is closer to that found in movie theaters, there is plenty of room for the whole picture.
		Because of this change over those without widescreens may notice their not getting the full picture, titles going off the screen, missing action that would normally take place in the left or right of the screen etc...
	forum.ecoustics.com /bbs/messages/34579/94119.html (1043 words)

	Ray's WidescreeN Vs. Pan & Scan Demo
		Widescreen formats (or versions) are widely available on DVDs and laserdiscs.
		But when the widescreen version of a movie is shown on a big-screen television the loss of viewing field isn't so bad.
		The widescreen version appears to be smaller on a TV set than a pan & scan version does, so it is NOT recommended that you view any widescreen version of a movie on a TV screen smaller than 19 inches.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/takslair2/wsvspns.html (356 words)

	Widescreen-o-Rama! All About Aspect Ratios
		Some of you may remember 3D films, which required that you wear a pair of rather silly looking stereoscopic glasses (one of the plastic filters the glasses used for "lenses" was blue and one was red).
		Experiments with both 3D and widescreen in films had been occurring since the early 1920s, but it was the 50s that they really took off.
		There can be no doubt that widescreen films convey much more dynamic imagery, with the wider aspect ratio working to enhance the dramatic impact of the film upon the viewer.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/anamorphic/aspectratios/widescreenorama.html (1128 words)

	Dell 30" UltraSharp Widescreen Monitor
		Widescreen Monitor is optimized for video editing, pre-press editing, 3D modeling, CAD, visualization, digital photography and gamers.
		The Dell 30-inch widescreen monitor is a visual wonder, boasting a fast response time, high contrast ratio and ultra-high resolution.
		The widescreen format is also ideal for watching DVDs and high-definition television, making the 3007WFP as versatile as it is stunning.
	www.dell.com /content/products/productdetails.aspx/monitor_3007wfp?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs (607 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.
		Like widescreen televisions, standard televisions with this feature could be designed to automatically detect whether content is anamorphic and avoid squeezing non-anamorphic content.
		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)

	FAQ - WSGFWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The widescreen's we're worried about with this FAQ, though, are different: they are computer monitors with "a bit on the side".
		We shall focus, once this initial intro is over, on the gaming aspects of a widescreen display, but that is not all they can do: graphics editing, web coding, programming, word processing, web browsing and a host of other everyday tasks gain by using widescreen.
		Widescreen televisions tend to have 16:9 ratio screens, while by far the most common aspect ratio found on PC's is 16:10.
	www.widescreengamingforum.com /wiki/index.php?title=FAQ (5298 words)

	BeoWorld.co.uk... a World of Bang & Olufsen online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first widescreen Bang and Olufsen TV was the Avant, released in 1996.
		However, even with later widescreen TVs the letterbox format was still unacceptable to a lot of viewers in that a widescreen or '16 x 9' TV has only an aspect ratio of 1.78:1.
		However, as we have said, current widescreen televisions have only an aspect ratio of 16:9, which is fairly close to the 1.85:1 ratio often used for modern movies, but still not close enough!
	www.beoworld.co.uk /widescreen.htm (1435 words)

	Widescreen Gaming: How To Set Up Your Video Card in Widescreen - Widescreen Gamer
		Most games simply aren't designed with today's widescreen aspect ratios in mine (16:10 is most common for desktop displays, and 16:9 for home cinema displays).
		Although more and more developers are factoring in widescreen gamers when designing their games, one look at our Widescreen Games Database will show you things are moving along slow, in terms of native widescreen resolutions.
		Even though widescreen resolutions aren't often supported officially, there are many ways to get a game to run in your native widescreen resolution.
	www.widescreengamer.com /articles/widescreen_gaming_how_to_set_up_your_video_card.html (539 words)

	Members Gallery Preview: Widescreen Wallpapers 1
		This page is a thumbnail preview of my small, but growing, collection of widescreen wallpapers.
		The images are available as a single 1920 x 1200 file and can be scaled to accurately fit most widescreen Apple Cinema and widescreen PowerBook displays.
		A growing proportion of the collection is available as 2560 x 1600 to fit Apple's 30" LCD (and other hi-res widescreen displays).
	www.digitalblasphemy.com /mpages/widescreen1.shtml (115 words)

	How widescreen DVDs won. - By Bryan Curtis - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the fight for the hearts and minds of viewers, widescreen and its film-geek adherents had won an unexpected and glorious victory.
		Now, the chain was conceding what cinephiles had argued for years: that widescreen was the superior way to watch a movie at home, even if it left fl bars at the top and bottom of your television screen.
		Since the major complaint about widescreen DVDs is the smaller picture, super-sized TVs point the way toward nirvana: On a 55-incher, widescreen's fl bars are a minor irritation.
	slate.msn.com /id/2101354 (1213 words)

	widescreen
		Some people are so miss informed they believe widescreen movies actually show less of the picture then the pan and scan version and think movie studios are cutting off part of the picture.
		To understand the difference between widescreen and pan and scan we first have to talk about aspect ratio.
		The widescreen is on the right and the pan and scan is on the left.
	home.insightbb.com /~gamejunky/wop.htm (550 words)

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