1. widescreen - Noun
2. widescreen - Adjective
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widescreen (plural widescreens)
(often attributive) A screen with a wider aspect ratio than the ordinary 35-millimeter frame, making more effective use of the human field of view and producing a more immersive view experience.
(film) Filmed in a greater aspect ratio than the 1.33:1 or 1.37:1 aspect ratio.
(of a motion picture) Presented in the original aspect ratio; presented in letterbox orientation.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgOn the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen. Helena Bonham Carter
Among them was his use of widescreen compositions, intended to capture the many people or activities taking place on screen at the same time. Source: Internet
A VistaVision 35 mm horizontal camera film frame (The dotted area shows the area actually used.) VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954. Source: Internet
All of the channels, except for BabyTV, are broadcast in 16:9 widescreen, while Fox has plans to offer an HD feed. Source: Internet
But when the DVD is "anamorphically enhanced for widescreen", or the film is telecast on a high-definition channel seen on a widescreen TV, the black spaces are smaller, and the effect is still much like watching a film on a theatrical wide screen. Source: Internet
CinemaScope became the first marketable usage of an anamorphic widescreen process and became the basis for a host of "formats," usually suffixed with -scope, that were otherwise identical in specification, although sometimes inferior in optical quality. Source: Internet