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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
I'd much rather have pillar boxed or letter boxed, and be able to see the scene the way it was filmed.
There is a scene in the movie Desk Set, with the 3 main characters at a small dining table. When cropped, you only see the center character, and the hands of the other 2 on each side. It ruins the scene completely. It's a perfect example of why pan and scan for 4.3 aspect ratio is terrible.
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I agree. That's what I meant by black space. Cropping is evil.
There even were 4:3 CRT TVs and CRT monitors that could display true 16:9 at correct aspect by reduced vertical drive so you got the full 480, 576 or 1080 lines resolution (NTSC, PAL, HDTV). I had a stored mode on my 1600 x 1200 DELL CRT monitor for 1920 x 1080 at reduced height and preset to switch PC GPU from 1600 x 1200 to 1920 x 1080 for HDTV from satellite card or USB DVB-T stick. (Ireland has animorphic 1080 line HD on DVB-T unlike UK which uses DVB-T2 for that.)