The game is one of the few PlayStation titles to run in high-resolution mode, offering crisper graphics and visuals, and also notable for having a widescreen correction option.
The initials XD stand for extreme digital, a widescreen format that enabled Cinemark, on the night of the reopening, to project "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" to its fullest technological effect.
For the most part, film buffs had to settle for the couple of minutes of letterbox that came with the opening credits on TV or wait for a special widescreen showing on one of a handful of pay-cable networks.
The conversions are very good though (with Crash, you even get the original PlayStation title screen), and you're able to adjust the display settings to go for a stretched widescreen mode or a 4 3 option that matches the olden days TVs that PSone titles were quaintly designed to run on.
Often the makers of a tuneful and mesmeric indie rock sound, that pays tribute to the likes of the Smiths and the Go-Betweens, Slave Ambient – via the means of some scene-setting ambient synth washes and some anthemic, U2-reminiscent songs – seems to be shooting for a more widescreen music.
Movies aren't going to look horrible or anything like that, but those hoping for a "true widescreen iPod" are going to be disappointed.
Her manifesto combines idealism and practicality in a widescreen vision for the capital that favours small business over large, champions localism and equality, contains measures for addressing London's desperate housing crisis, demands police reform and sees the economic and environmental logic of moving the motor vehicle to the bottom of the capital's transport hierarchy.
(This comes after YouTube adopted a widescreen format for all of its videos last week).
The Gmail Offline app for Chrome, which is essentially a widescreen version of the mobile app that gives you a two-pane view of your inbox, will also get the same design update.
