On May 09, 2004 Bob Lawrence wrote to Niels Petersen:

BL>  As I said earlier, watching TV in a lounge room is nothing like
BL> watching a movie in a theatre (or nothing like watching a still
BL> image of a photograph or a painting). In the theatre, widescreen
BL> makes sense because it involves the viewer in the large action; in
BL> the corner of the loungeroom it is still a small image overlapped by
BL> our eye's natural 4:3 range of view. We just focus on the action and
BL> wipe the overlap.

So what happens when watching a widescreen film on TV when the action is
outside the 4:3 frame?

Best wishes,
Malcolm

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