The aspect ratio states the comparison of width to height and is commonly used to describe the shape of a TV or computer screen. For example, the aspect ratio of an earlier standard-definition (SD) ...

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 ...

Pixel is the smallest element that can be displayed on a screen. It is nothing but a dot on the screen. The clusters of these dots light up together to form a picture on the display. Now, let us start ...

The aspect ratio of a film is the ratio of its width to its height. In layman’s terms, it defines the size of the black bars you see on the screen when watching a film. It may seem like a technicality ...

In 2014, Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was released featuring not one, but three aspect ratios. This is more or less unheard of as far as big studio productions go, especially considering ...

Here’s an instance from an old VHS tape of “Advise and Consent, “one of the most daring American widescreen films. The slightly fatter faces are due to the distortion of the CRT monitor I shot from.

Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...