Liz Shannon Miller is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor, and has been talking about television on the Internet since the very beginnings of the Internet. Prior to serving as Senior TV Editor at ...

Zack Snyder's Justice League is here, and it has everyone talking – though one question that keeps coming up is just why it isn't in widescreen. The Snyder Cut has a fairly boxy shape, with black bars ...

You might not spend much time thinking about the shape of the movies you watch, but everyone from filmmakers to streaming services are paying more attention than ever. Will the next movie you watch ...

Aspect ratio measures the relationship between the width and height of a display, sensor, or image. A common aspect ratio is 16:9, which means it's 16 units wide and 9 units high. There are many ...

Now that LG has launched the G6 we have a couple of new phrases to add to our vocabularies, “18:9 aspect ratio” and “FullVision”. So what is an aspect ratio? What is 18:9? Why isn’t it called a 2:1 ...

As any aspiring YouTube personality, filmmaker, or cinematography enthusiast knows, video resolution impacts the clarity of your video. The term refers to a video’s visual quality as represented by ...

Another chance to read Serge Golikov's excellent article on the the often-confusing matter of aspect ratios, letterboxing, and pillarboxing, giving RedShark readers a lesson of cinematic rectangles ...

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Here is a full guide on how to change the video aspect ratio on Windows 11/10 PC. The video aspect ratio is basically the proportion of width to height of a video. It determines the width of your ...