What is 16:9, 4:3 Letterbox & 4:3 Pan&Scan? What is anamorphic DVD?
16:9 = Wide screen 4:3 = Full Screen, Standard TV size 4:3 Letterbox = wide screen picture on a 4:3 TV with black bars on top and bottom of picture 4:3 P&S = Wide screen getting scanned and panned left and right give a full screen picture 2.35:1 = Wider wide screen format. A narrow picture on 4:3 TV. If watched on a wide screen TV, you will still get letterbox picture 1.85:1 = Wide screen (16:9) For 4:3 TV, set your DVD player to 4:3. On a DVD player, there are two 4:3 settings, letter box and pan and scan. Certain DVDs have auto pan and scan information on them. The DVD automatically zooms in on part of the picture to fill a 4:3 screen if your DVD player is set to 4:3 P&S. Otherwise it’ll display the widescreen if its set to 4:3LB or 16:9. Anamorphic DVDs are specially encoded to include more visual information than standard DVDs. In Anamorphic DVD: the source aspect ratio matches exactly destination aspect ratio (16:9).
