Talk:Letterboxing (filming)

message: Added the image (a while ago), so I removed the image request Last Avenue 18:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Added image

message: I just talked to a coworker who, despite being familiar with the film format, had no idea that doors in some countries were fitted with letter boxes and therefore never knew where the name came from. Do you think we should mention it? Marnanel (talk) 15:47, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a reference to letter box at the end of the first paragraph in the lead. --Thomprod (talk) 22:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This was removed here  with the comment "unsourced". Do we really need a source for this? I have re-added it with a cn template. GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:52, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Is there an explanation for why widescreen releases still sometimes get letterboxed on widescreen TV's? For example, I have a widescreen TV (which has no problem with widescreen TV shows) and the widescreen version of The Simpsons Movie, but it still displays in freaking letterbox format (resulting in me having to select "Overscan" on my TV and thus cutting off parts of the image). TJ Spyke 03:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Widescreen TV shows are normally shot at an aspect ratio of 16:9, exactly matching the 16:9 ratio of your widescreen TV and completely filling the screen.  Widescreen films, however, have been shot at various ratios over the years, most of which are still somewhat wider than your TV screen.  A common current ratio is 2.35:1, resulting in some residual black bars at the top and bottom, but not as much as you would see with the same film displayed in letterbox format on a 4:3 screen. --Thomprod (talk) 22:10, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Widescreen letterboxing 

message: Can somebody add a section to clarify the position of sites like youtube, divshare, revver, blip.tv, and the like to explain their policies on letterboxing uploaded videos?
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=132460&topic=16612 99.163.83.193 (talk) 13:28, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: YouTube does not currently letterbox uploaded video.  They display it in the same format that it was supplied to them, and can be 4:3 SD or 16:9 HD. --Thomprod (talk) 22:15, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, YouTube doesn't change the format of the file itself, but it uses a video player that always has the same format as your screen. If the video has the same format as your screen, it will fill the player but if it doesn't you will see black bars. Making the player the same format as the screen was in fact a very good choice because it means that when you watch YouTube videos in full screen mode, you wouldn't get double letterboxing unless the video file itself has already been letterboxed by the uploader. -- 89.204.153.78 (talk) 23:31, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Letterbox Use in Digital video sharing

message: I added a bit about non-black & animated mattes and letterbox parodies just now at the end of the "in cinema and home video" section and I hope everyone consider it appropriate (Surely there should be a mention of both somewhere in the article.)  I know of 2 instances of letterbox parodies.  I mentioned the Crazy Frog one, but another was a car commercial I saw a long time ago before widescreen TV was common, or perhaps before they existed altogether - after the commercial opened in letterboxed CinemaScope footage of a car racing in the desert, the next shot was of the car sitting still and a character reached down and up and removed the mattes, which at that point in the commerical were actually cardboard or styrofoam.  I'm sure there are other instances of non-black mattes (tons from music videos) and probably a few parodies as well.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.80.255 (talk) 07:37, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mattes aren't always black and letterbox parodies 

message: The article stats that "[Anamorphic widescreen] image transformation generally requires digital signal processing, so letterboxing was the only way in which films were presented in widescreen on home video prior to the DVD format". This is not true, as VHS already supported WSS (widescreen signal). Sorry for not editing myself :P
87.196.128.243 (talk) 23:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anamorphic widescreen on VHS 

message: The article doesn't say anything about the opposite case, e.g. when someone watches a 4:3 video on a 16:10 screen. Can this also be called letterboxing, or is there a different term for this? -- 89.204.153.78 (talk) 23:35, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is called "pillarboxing". Bob talk 16:23, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverse Letterboxing 

message: Recently on TV in Australia, I have noticed this interesting form of pillarboxing (e.g. sometimes on SBS news stories, or on the TV show "Forensic Investigators"). Rather than making the pillarbox matte black, it is some kind of semi-random, sometimes moving, pattern (a sort of busy pattern, but without sharp internal edges, internally diffuse), which is often colour-matched to the main part of the image, or to the theme colour of the show, or else is a dark grey colour. I think this is an effect designed to be less distracting to the eyes than pure black, to create less a sharp edge. What I am wondering, does this technique have a name?? 58.165.17.130 (talk) 10:52, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Patterned" pillarboxing 

message: The stand-alone Pillarbox article is redundant while  this article has a section on the very same subject.  The other page is essentially un-cited (the only reference is tagged as a dead link). Since this page's section has references, I think the other page's material should be merged here and the other article replaced with a redirect to this article. -- David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 13:21, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion 

message: Article has been tagged for needing sources for over two years. Feel free to reinsert the below material with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 12:50, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material 

message: The term gutterboxing is used but not defined in the article.  According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowbox_(filmmaking) , it is a synonym for windowboxing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.138.92.98 (talk) 16:49, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gutterboxing  

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Letterbox. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 16#Letterbox until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:09, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Letterbox" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: There is a mention of non-black letterbox bars in the "On television" section but nothing about the very common practice of adding out-of-focus duplicate video in pillarboxed 9:16 video. In fact there is no mention of 9:16 at all. This should be briefly covered if we can find a source. GA-RT-22 (talk) 00:00, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pillarboxing of 9:16 

message: I have added a paragraph about the use of letterboxing as a privacy measure (to resist browser fingerprinting). This specific use of letterboxing might not belong on this page as the title relates to filming, but since it does have many similarities (hence the name) I think it does fit here. If anyone disagrees feel free to remove this part. --MichielN (talk) 10:58, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Privacy measure