With the widespread adoption of anamorphic DVDs, widescreen VHS releases quickly began to be phased out, with some noteworthy exceptions (for example, the 2004 Disney film Home on the Range was only available in letterboxed format on VHS) Every major studio maintained a special "Widescreen Series" of titles available this way, with releases from 20th Century Fox packaged in small black bulletcases with bronze backgrounds used for the cover art to help distinguish them from pan-and-scan releases. These usually carried a disclaimer that the films were presented in widescreen and that the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen were normal. Each disc contains a label noting the use of "RCA's innovative wide-screen mastering technique." In cinema and home video įrom 1996 until 2000, it was common for studios to release special widescreen versions of VHS releases. The first fully letterboxed CED release was Amarcord in 1984, and several others followed including The Long Goodbye, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The King of Hearts. Initially, letterboxing was limited to several key sequences of a film such as opening and closing credits, but was later used for entire films. The first use of letterbox in consumer video appeared with the RCA Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) videodisc format. The term refers to the shape of a letter box, a slot in a wall or door through which mail is delivered, being rectangular and wider than it is high. LBX and LTBX are identifying abbreviations for films and images thus formatted. The resulting videographic image has mattes (black bars) above and below it these mattes are part of each frame of the video signal. Letterboxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio. A 2.35:1 widescreen image letterboxed in a 1.33:1 screen
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