The films were digitised (with a standard mpeg codec running at 25 frames per second) and shown on a 42 inch plasma widescreen monitor (1280 by 1024 pixel resolution) in a rectangle of width 824 mm and height 512 mm.
In 2012, a widescreen version of the film was shown on two different occasions (January 20 and September 21) on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel.
The rear camera shoots video in 16:9 widescreen to match the 720p standard, although only the central 4 3 part of the recording is shown on the screen during recording.
A large widescreen television broadcasts major K-1 kickboxing events, as well as WWE and other mixed martial arts favourites to a bar that holds fewer than 30, with reruns of popular fights shown on a regular basis.
Shows that are shown in widescreen format can fill the screen on the left and right sides of the TV, but not on the top and bottom of the TV screen.
Consequently, he purposely filmed scenes with actors on the extreme edge of both sides so that they could only be shown in widescreen.
Unfortunately, this smashing BluRay edition includes archival footage that's been cropped so it can be shown in widescreen.
Finally, The Chronological Donald Volume Four: 1951-1961 ($32.99; Disney) contains 31 shorts, some of them Oscar-winning and shown in their widescreen format for the first time since originally airing in movie theaters.
Where black bars normally appear on a 4 3 (full screen) television showing a widescreen production, footage is displayed of curtains moving in the background.
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.
"It is slightly problematic," she jokes now, "because the [film] is going to be screened on the ABC and they're going to want to show it in widescreen.
