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2. Anamorphic widescreen - Wikipedia

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   Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a comparatively wide widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 standard-definition frame, for example) with a narrower aspect ratio, reducing the horizontal resolution of the image while keeping its full original vertical resolution.

3. 16:9 aspect ratio - Wikipedia

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   16:9 is the only widescreen aspect ratio natively supported by the DVD format. An anamorphic PAL region DVD video frame has a maximum resolution of 720 × 576p, but a video player software will stretch this to 1024 × 576p. Producers can also choose to show even wider ratios such as 1.85:1 and 2.4:1 within the 16:9 DVD frame by hard matting or ...

4. Aspect ratio (image) - Wikipedia

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   Many digital video cameras have the capability to record in 16:9 (= 4 2:3 2), and 16:9 is the only widescreen aspect ratio natively supported by the DVD standard. DVD producers can also choose to show even wider ratios such as 1.66:1, 1.75:1, 1.77:1 and 1.78:1 [ 1 ] within the 16:9 DVD frame by hard matting or adding black bars within the image ...

5. Letterboxing (filming) - Wikipedia

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   Letterboxing (filming) A 2.35:1 widescreen image letter-boxed in a 1.33:1 screen. Letter-boxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio. The resulting video-graphic image has mattes of empty space above and below it; these mattes are ...

6. 1080p - Wikipedia

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   1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vertically; [ 1 ] the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non- interlaced.

7. 14:9 aspect ratio - Wikipedia

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   The aspect ratio of 14:9 (1.555...) is the arithmetic mean (average) of 16:9 and 4:3 (12:9), . More practically, it is approximately the geometric mean [5] (the precise geometric mean is ), and in this sense is mathematically a compromise between these two aspect ratios: two equal area pictures (at 16:9 and 4:3) will intersect in a box with ...