Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

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.