What is Pan & Scan?
(Full Frame or Full Screen): This means the thinner TV “window” is panned and zoomed across the wider movie picture, chopping off the sides. When a picture is shown in widescreen, it needs to be cut down to fit What happens in this case is the The top and bottom are masked off in the theater, but when the film is transferred to video the full 1.33 frame can be used in the pan & scan process. Pan & scan is primarily used for 1.33 formatting, not for 1.78 formatting, since widescreen fans prefer that letterboxing be used to preserve the theatrical effect. As a result of cutting off visual information from the sides, some scenes in the Pan & Scan version of some movies are boring or don’t even make sense. More often, they are just less interesting and/or less beautiful.
