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Pan and scan

A method of transferring movies with an aspect ratio of 16:9 to film, tape, or disc to be shown on a conventional TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Only part of the full image is selected for each scene. Pan and Scan is the opposite of “letterbox” or “widescreen.”

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