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Compatible play-back equipment (a projector with modified lens, or a digital video player or set-top box) can then expand the horizontal dimension to show the original widescreen image. This is typically used to allow one to store widescreen images on a medium that was originally intended for a narrower ratio, while using as much of the frame – and therefore recording as much detail – as possible.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The technique comes from cinema, when a film would be framed and recorded as widescreen but the picture would be "squashed together" using a special <a href="/wiki/Concave_lens" class="mw-redirect" title="Concave lens">concave lens</a> to fit into non-widescreen 1.37:1 aspect ratio film. This film can then be printed and manipulated like any other 1.37:1 film stock, although the images on it will appear to be squashed horizontally (or elongated vertically). An <a href="/wiki/Anamorphic_format" title="Anamorphic format">anamorphic lens</a> on the projector in the cinema (a <a href="/wiki/Convex_lens" class="mw-redirect" title="Convex lens">convex lens</a>) corrects the picture by performing the opposite distortion, returning it to its original width and its widescreen aspect ratio. </p><p>The optical scaling of the lens to a film medium is considered more desirable than the digital counterpart, due to the amount of non-proportional pixel-decimated scaling that is applied to the width of an image to achieve (something of a misnomer) a so-called "rectangular" pixel widescreen image. The legacy <a href="/wiki/ITU-R" title="ITU-R">ITU-R</a> <a href="/wiki/Rec._601" title="Rec. 601">Rec. 601</a> 4:3 image size is used for its compatibility with the original video bandwidth that was available for professional video devices that used fixed clock rates of a <a href="/wiki/SMPTE" class="mw-redirect" title="SMPTE">SMPTE</a> 259M <a href="/wiki/Serial_digital_interface" title="Serial digital interface">serial digital interface</a>. One would produce a higher-quality upscaled 16:9 widescreen image by using either a 1:1 SD progressive frame size of 640×360 or for <a href="/wiki/ITU-R" title="ITU-R">ITU-R</a> <a href="/wiki/Rec._601" title="Rec. 601">Rec. 601</a> and <a href="/wiki/SMPTE" class="mw-redirect" title="SMPTE">SMPTE</a> 259M compatibility a letterboxed frame size of <a href="/wiki/480i" title="480i">480i</a> or <a href="/wiki/576i" title="576i">576i</a>. Similar operations are performed electronically to allow widescreen material to be stored on formats or broadcast on systems that assume a non-widescreen aspect ratio, such as <a href="/wiki/DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a> or standard definition <a href="/wiki/Digital_television_broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital television broadcasting">digital television broadcasting</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film">Film</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Anamorphic_format" title="Anamorphic format">Anamorphic format</a></div> <p>Many commercial films (especially epics – usually with the CinemaScope 2.35:1 optical sound or the older 4-track mag sound 2.55:1 aspect ratio) are recorded on standard 35 mm ~4:3 aspect ratio film,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> using an anamorphic lens to horizontally compress all footage into a ~4:3 frame. Another anamorphic lens on the movie theatre projector corrects (optically decompresses) the picture (see <a href="/wiki/Anamorphic_format" title="Anamorphic format">anamorphic format</a> for details). Other movies (often with aspect ratios of 1.85:1 in the USA or 1.66:1 in Europe) are made using the simpler <a href="/wiki/Matte_(filmmaking)" title="Matte (filmmaking)">matte</a> technique, which involves both filming and projecting without any expensive special lenses. The movie is produced in 1.375 format, and then the resulting image is simply cropped in post-production (or perhaps in the theater's projector) to fit the desired aspect ratio of 1.85:1 or 1.66:1 or whatever is desired. Besides costing less, the main advantage of the matte technique is that it leaves the studio with "real" footage (the areas that are cropped for the theatrical release) which can be used in preference to <a href="/wiki/Pan_and_scan" title="Pan and scan">pan and scan</a> when producing 4:3 DVD releases, for example. </p><p>The anamorphic encoding on DVD is related to the anamorphic filming technique (like <a href="/wiki/CinemaScope" title="CinemaScope">CinemaScope</a>) only by name. For instance, <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a></i> (1977) was filmed in 2.39:1 ratio using an anamorphic camera lens, and shown in theaters using the corresponding projector lens. Since it is a widescreen film, when encoded on a widescreen-format DVD the studio would almost certainly use the anamorphic encoding process. <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail" title="Monty Python and the Holy Grail">Monty Python and the Holy Grail</a></i> was filmed in 1.85:1 ratio without using an anamorphic lens on the camera, and similarly was shown in theaters without the need for the decompression lens. However, since it is also a widescreen film, when encoded on a widescreen-format DVD the studio would probably use the anamorphic encoding process. </p><p>It does not matter whether the filming was done using the anamorphic lens technique: as long as the source footage is intended to be widescreen, the digital anamorphic encoding procedure is appropriate for the DVD release. As a sidenote, if a purely non-widescreen version of the analog-anamorphic <i>Star Wars</i> were to be released on DVD, the only options would be pan and scan or hardcoded 4:3 letterboxing (with the black letterboxes actually encoded as part of the DVD data). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Laserdisc">Laserdisc</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Laserdisc"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While not anamorphic widescreen per se, many of the earliest Laserdisc offerings forwent the pan-and-scan cropping typical of home releases at the time, the mastering-technicians opting instead to simply squeeze the film's original aspect ratio down to 4:3. While this resulted in an image that was overly compressed on standard televisions, many later HDTVs can stretch out this picture, thus restoring the correct aspect ratio. </p><p>Later during the 1990s, a handful of Laserdiscs were released with proper anamorphic transfers. Video was stretched vertically to fill the whole 4:3 picture of a Laserdisc (and add more information where black bars would be at the top and bottom) then either un-squeezed horizontally on a 16:9 TV set or using an anamorphic lens on a 4:3 video projector. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="DVD_Video">DVD Video</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: DVD Video"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A DVD labeled as "Anamorphic Widescreen" contains video that has the same frame size in pixels as traditional <i>fullscreen</i> video, but uses wider pixels. The shape of the pixels is called <i><a href="/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio" title="Pixel aspect ratio">pixel aspect ratio</a></i> and is encoded in the video stream for a DVD player to correctly identify the proportions of the video. If an anamorphic DVD video is played on standard 4:3 television without adjustment, the image will look horizontally squeezed. The menus are also anamorphic. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Packaging">Packaging</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Packaging"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MGM-Pkg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/MGM-Pkg.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="129" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="129" /></a><figcaption>Pre-2001 MGM Anamorphic Widescreen DVD packaging sample.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Univ-Pkg.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Univ-Pkg.JPG" decoding="async" width="89" height="65" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="89" data-file-height="65" /></a><figcaption>Universal Anamorphic Widescreen DVD packaging sample. Also used by DreamWorks Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.</figcaption></figure> <p>Although currently there is no labeling standard, DVDs with content originally produced in an aspect ratio wider than 1.33:1 are typically labeled "Anamorphic Widescreen", "Enhanced for 16:9 televisions", "Enhanced for widescreen televisions", or similar. If not so labeled, the DVD is intended for a 4:3 display ("fullscreen"), and will be <a href="/wiki/Letterboxed" class="mw-redirect" title="Letterboxed">letterboxed</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pan_and_scan" title="Pan and scan">panned and scanned</a>. </p><p>There has been no clear standardization for companies to follow regarding the advertisement of anamorphically enhanced widescreen DVDs. Some companies, such as Universal and <a href="/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">Disney</a>, include the <a href="/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)" title="Aspect ratio (image)">aspect ratio</a> of the movie. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Blu-ray_video">Blu-ray video</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Blu-ray video"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike DVD, <a href="/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Blu-ray Disc">Blu-ray</a> supports <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_Television_Engineers" title="Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers">SMPTE</a> HD resolutions of 720p and 1080i/p with a <a href="/wiki/Video#Aspect_ratio" title="Video">display aspect ratio</a> of 16:9 and a <a href="/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio" title="Pixel aspect ratio">pixel aspect ratio</a> of 1:1, so widescreen video is scaled non-anamorphically (this is referred to as "square" pixels). </p><p>Blu-ray also supports anamorphic widescreen, both at the DVD-Video/<a href="/wiki/D-1_(Sony)" title="D-1 (Sony)">D-1</a> resolutions of 720×480 (NTSC) and 720×576 (PAL), and at the higher resolution of 1440×1080 (source aspect ratio of 4:3, hence a pixel aspect ratio of 4:3 = 16:9 / 4:3 when used as anamorphic 16:9). See <a href="/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Technical_specifications" class="mw-redirect" title="Blu-ray Disc">Blu-ray Disc: Technical specifications</a> for details. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television">Television</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Major <a href="/wiki/Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital television</a> <a href="/wiki/TV_channel" class="mw-redirect" title="TV channel">channels</a> in Europe (for example, the five major UK <a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrestrial TV">terrestrial TV</a> channels of <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a>, <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> and <a href="/wiki/Channel_5_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel 5 (UK)">Channel 5</a>), as well as Australia, carry anamorphic widescreen programming in standard definition. In almost all cases, 4:3 programming is also transmitted on the same channel. The <a href="/wiki/SCART" title="SCART">SCART</a> switching signal can be used by a set-top-box to signal the television which kind of programming (4:3 or anamorphic) is currently being received, so that the television can change modes appropriately. The user can often elect to display widescreen programming in a 4:3 letterbox format instead of <a href="/wiki/Pan_and_scan" title="Pan and scan">pan and scan</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> if they do not have a widescreen television. </p><p><a href="/wiki/TV_station" class="mw-redirect" title="TV station">TV stations</a> and <a href="/wiki/TV_network" class="mw-redirect" title="TV network">TV networks</a> can also include <a href="/wiki/Active_Format_Description" title="Active Format Description">Active Format Description</a> (AFD) just as DVDs can. Many <a href="/wiki/ATSC_tuner" title="ATSC tuner">ATSC tuners</a> (integrated or <a href="/wiki/Set-top_box" title="Set-top box">set-top box</a>) can be set to respond to this, or to apply a user setting. This can sometimes be set on a per-channel basis, and often on a per-input basis, and usually easily with a button on the <a href="/wiki/Remote_control" title="Remote control">remote control</a>. However, tuners often fail to allow this on <a href="/wiki/SDTV" class="mw-redirect" title="SDTV">SDTV</a> (<a href="/wiki/480i" title="480i">480i</a>-mode) channels, so that viewers are forced to view a small picture instead of cropping the unnecessary sides (which are outside of the <a href="/wiki/Safe_area_(television)" title="Safe area (television)">safe area</a>), or zooming to eliminate the <a href="/wiki/Windowboxing" class="mw-redirect" title="Windowboxing">windowboxing</a> that may be causing a small picture, or <a href="/wiki/Stretch-o-Vision" class="mw-redirect" title="Stretch-o-Vision">stretching/compressing</a> to eliminate other format-conversion errors. The shrunken pictures are especially troublesome for smaller TV sets. </p><p>Many modern <a href="/wiki/HDTV" class="mw-redirect" title="HDTV">HDTV</a> sets have the capability to detect black areas in any video signal, and to smoothly re-scale the picture independently in both directions (horizontal and vertical) so that it fills the screen. However, some sets are 16:10 (1.6:1) like some <a href="/wiki/Computer_monitor" title="Computer monitor">computer monitors</a>, and will not crop the left and right edges of the picture, meaning that all programming looks slightly (though usually imperceptibly) tall and thin. </p><p>ATSC allows two anamorphic widescreen SDTV formats (<a href="/wiki/Interlaced_scanning" class="mw-redirect" title="Interlaced scanning">interlaced</a> and <a href="/wiki/Progressive_scan" title="Progressive scan">progressive scan</a>) which are 704×480 (10% wider than 640×480); this is narrower than the 720×480 of DVD due to 16 pixels being consumed by <a href="/wiki/Overscan" title="Overscan">overscan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nominal_analogue_blanking" title="Nominal analogue blanking">nominal analogue blanking</a>) – see <a href="/wiki/Overscan#Analog_to_digital_resolution_issues" title="Overscan">overscan: analog to digital resolution issues</a>. The format can also be used for fullscreen programming, and in this case it is anamorphic with pixels slightly taller (10:11, or 0.91:1) than their width. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anamorphic_format" title="Anamorphic format">Anamorphic film format</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anamorphosis" title="Anamorphosis">Anamorphosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)" title="Aspect ratio (image)">Aspect ratio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letterbox_(filming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Letterbox (filming)">Letterbox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_and_scan" title="Pan and scan">Pan and scan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoot_and_protect" title="Shoot and protect">Shoot and protect</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anamorphic_widescreen&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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