![]() ![]() #Letterbox format fullA fad popularised by Hype Williams in the 2000s was where certain music videos such as Beyoncé's "Check On It" and Ne-Yo's "So Sick" employed video backgrounds on the top and bottom bars, which amounted to a visually impressive eye candy back when most households who watched MTV had a 4:3 CRT television, making full use of the negative space left by the use of widescreen footage. Some TV channels would fill the letterbox with their network ID, like this. TV channels or some YouTube videos showing content recorded in 4:3 or vertical smartphone video would fill the letterbox with a zoomed, cropped and blurred version of the same video played in sync, like this. ![]() The original widescreen home video release of Woody Allen's Manhattan used grey bars. The two most common letterboxes involve trying to fit a 16:9 image onto a 4:3 screen or a 21:9 image onto a 16:9 screen, although now that 4:3 is essentially replaced by 16:9 the former has become less common.īear in mind that the bars that letterboxing generates are usually black, but not always. This is done by shrinking the original image until its width matches that of the screen the side effect is that the movie's height is now considerably less than that of the TV screen, resulting in black bars at the top and bottom, forming a "box" around the film (it's rather like watching the film through a mail slot or "letter box", hence the term). This term refers to a method of fitting an image onto a screen that is less wide than the image (or more square, if you prefer) in order to preserve its original Aspect Ratio. ![]()
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