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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 22:34:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 21:34:18 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:

> Way back when when TVs were 4:3 and when Panovision (wide screen) movies
> would be broadcast on TV, the movies would be "edited" to fit -- this
> was done "manually" (eg by a human on a scene by scene basis). Same for
> early VHS tapes.

This was called “pan and scan”.

> Later "letterbox" was used for VHS and some cable movie channels, and
> the "black bars" came into being...

This was the lesser of the two evils: at least you saw the whole picture, 
undistorted, the way its makers intended. But the lower TV resolution did 
lose a bunch of detail. And of course people complained about the 
“unsightly” black bars ...

> I have an old VHS tape of Red Sonia that was "hand edited" to fit 4:3,
> except at the very end (Arnold and Brigit kissing scene that morphs into
> the credits), which has Arnold and Brigit and their horses suddenly too
> tall.

I have seen that done, being the only way to get in the entirety of the 
closing credits.