In addition (and if anyone can show me proof of which format had the first letterbox I'll include it here) the laserdisc was created to give widescreen and standard definition formats a higher-quality source format for those getting into big screen TVs and the whole home theater craze. thanks to John Ambro for the quote from Their contributions solidified the laserdisc as the choice ofĬinephiles for over 15 years. Storyboards, shooting scripts), state-of-the-art mastering, and otherĮxtras. Making-of documentaries, photo galleries (stills, posters, artwork, Materials, commentaries by directors on audio tracks, interviews, Letterboxed formats (rather than pan-and-scan), supplementary Special-edition video laserdiscs, with additional revolutionaryįeatures such as language options, original aspect ratio widescreen and In 1984 the Voyager Company debuted its Criterion Collection line of Often mistakenly considered the first letterboxed release. This wasĮight months prior to the release of "Manhattan" on LaserDisc, which is Letterboxing, with the release of "Amarcord" in January 1984. CED was the first video format to feature Widescreen mastering technique," and on the back of the caddy providedĪn explanation for the black bands at the top and bottom of the Several CED titles were issued in letterbox format (" Amarcord", "The Long Goodbye", "Manhattan", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"Īnd RCA's "King of Hearts"). Prior to this everything was presented in Pan and Scan mode whereby the wide version of the film was intelligently cropped to where the action was - but still eliminating 30% or more of the picture. As a result, letterboxing was developed to mat the picture with black bars on the top and bottom, enabling the wide center area to show the aspect ratio of the original theatrical presentation. Some intelligent producers actually thought that some people would perhaps enjoy actually seeing the whole film. When VHS came to market, people, for the first time, could watch theatrical movies in their homes. Remember VHS & Laserdisc? It Kind of Started this Whole Craze. This still results in a loss of at least 30% of the original image. Though better than merely cropping the image, Horizontally across the widescreen film to keep the action in the Movies encoded into 4:3 ratio by intelligently panning and scanning The DVD player then expands the image appropriately (if set correctly) Such that it utilizes all available resolution in the encoding process. This is the typical standard for encoding widescreen content on a DVD Also refers to the old practice of encodingīlack bars along with the image on VHS tapes and early DVDs as a poor Usually referring to playing widescreen format pictures on standardĭefinition television. The presence of black bars at the top and bottom of the picture. Standard aspect ratio for standard definition television (NTSC/PAL) and Digital Television (DTV). Standard aspect ratio for high definition television Later, DVD came along followed by high definition widescreen televisions, and life got confusing (but better.) In order to understand all of these differing formats you'll need to understand something about each and the purposes for which they were designed.Īspect ratio: the ratio between the width and height of an image.
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These videos presented the full picture as you saw it in the theater, but did so on our 4:3 (non-widescreen) televisions. Someone introduced us to widescreen videos on VHS. Just saying.(v2 camera - Haven't tried v1) - I wonder if it will still work on reboot.Yup! I am not certain, but it might lose the "zoom effect", it's dark outside.Why are There Black Bars on My TV? Understanding Aspect RatiosĪ Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Not So Far Away… I couldn't find anything about this in the documentation - just tried it as a last resort! NOTE the reversal of the dimension values. What it seems you have to do is set these:įor foo in camera.capture_continuous(stream, 'jpeg', use_video_port=True, resize=(360,640)): Turn the camera on its side? Nope! It knows isn't like taking a hand held camera and turning it!Ĭamera.rotation=90 nearly works - The image is lying on its side, if you then turn the camera it knows you did it, and tilts the image back! Nearly had to resort to Javascript (Eugh!! - sorry Heater) or CSS (even worse). Then I decided I wanted to take the shot vertically. I wanted to use a 16:9 image zoomed in as per this using 1920x1080 (resized for conveience to 640x360.
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