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Old 01-24-2025, 03:22 PM   #2299
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Originally Posted by ratinox View Post
4:3 broadcast TV is a formal standard. Actually it's several related formal standards: NTSC, PAL and SECAM. 16:9 became a formal standard with HDTV specifications.
IIRC, the reason 4:3 was established as the standard for early television is because it matched the same aspect ratio used at movie theaters. Then to compete with television, theaters started using wider screens (I could be wrong but the widest one was 2.35:1). This lead to problems when showing movies on TV (I remember seeing the movie Beach Party where one of the credits showed "Annette Funicello" as "nette Funice").

Benny Hill did a sketch that illustrated how wrong this can go when the technician is not paying attention when doing pan & scan for a movie that is in widescreen (such as a fight where you don't see the actual fight because it is in the part of the frame that has been cropped out). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the sketch on YouTube.
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