{"id":8152,"date":"2010-03-29T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:43:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:43:36","slug":"why-letterbox-is-preferred-over-fullscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/03\/29\/why-letterbox-is-preferred-over-fullscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Letterbox is preferred over Fullscreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h4oLdlVnNHU&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h4oLdlVnNHU&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed by how many times people still ask me about the &#8216;black bars&#8217; when films are shown on TV, or when UK channels like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/\">ITV<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.five.tv\/\">Five<\/a> show films cropped from their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aspect_ratio_(image)#Original_aspect_ratio_.28OAR.29\">original aspect ratio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The above video uses a scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0095016\/\">Die Hard<\/a> to explain why maintaining the original look of a film is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short video explaining why maintaining the original aspect ratio of a film is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1364,356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}