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

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:34 this Monday (GMT):

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 21:34:18 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:
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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.

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This was called “pan and scan”.

So THAT'S what that originally meant!

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

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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 truly don't get WHY it's even an issue for people. Is the screen not
being 100% filled that big of an issue?

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.

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

Well, at least it's not an intrusive issue.
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