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What (who) is widescreen - definition

ASPECT RATIO OF A DISPLAYED IMAGE
Wide screen; Wide-screen; Widescreen television; Arnoldscope; 2:35:1; 1:85:1; 1:85.1
  • Conrad Luperti, J. Marvin Spoor, and [[William S. Adams]] with the Natural Vision camera
  • Wikipedia main page]] on August 15, 2010, as viewed with a widescreen monitor

widescreen         
¦ adjective (of a cinema or television screen) presenting a wide field of vision in relation to height.
widescreen         
A widescreen television has a screen that is wide in relation to its height.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Widescreen signaling         
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ASPECT RATIO SIGNALING IN AN ANALOG TELEVISION SIGNAL
Line23; WSS signals; Widescreen signalling
In television technology, Wide Screen Signaling (WSS) is digital metadata embedded in invisible part of the analog TV signal describing qualities of the broadcast, in particular the intended aspect ratio of the image. This allows television broadcasters to enable both 4:3 and 16:9 television sets to optimally present pictures transmitted in either format, by displaying them in full screen, letterbox, widescreen, pillar-box, zoomed letterbox, etc.

Wikipedia

Widescreen

Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35 mm film.

For television, the original screen ratio for broadcasts was in fullscreen 4:3 (1.33:1). Largely between the 1990s and early 2000s, at varying paces in different nations, 16:9 (1.78:1) widescreen TV displays came into increasingly common use. They are typically used in conjunction with high-definition television (HDTV) receivers, or Standard-Definition (SD) DVD players and other digital television sources.

With computer displays, aspect ratios wider than 4:3 are also referred to as widescreen. Widescreen computer displays were previously made in a 16:10 aspect ratio (e.g. 1680 × 1050), but now are usually 16:9 (e.g. 1920 × 1080).

Examples of use of widescreen
1. You can flip off your widescreen TV with the remote control.
2. The full screen enables users to enjoy high quality DivX video files in widescreen format.
3. The sale of widescreen TVs has jumped by ten per cent in the past week.
4. Delegates were welcomed to the conference by widescreen TVs rotating advertisements for Capita, Fujitsu and PwC showing the platform speeches.
5. The ants where the television should have been had gone also, replaced by a widescreen with DVD.