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@WaybackRewind - I prefer letterboxed over pan and scan, but on VHS and Laserdisc the letterboxed versions have less vertical resolution. I called that cropping and caused confusion. This video sets out to explain what I meant. The image as displayed on the screen contains less information than the format is capable of producing and is smaller than the full screen image. In that sense it is cropped.
Although DVD is a standard definition format it does not have this shortcoming. A DVD can recognize a widescreen image and squeeze it onto the full frame of the forma, preserving resolution, and when played back on a widescreen TV is unsqueezed to display properly. High definition format such as blue ray are natively widescreen.
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