Anamorphic also is known as 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen. In DVD technology, anamorphic is a process for preserving a movie’s entire image and rich detail by compressing it horizontally during the DVD printing process. The stored image is a distortion of the original one, hence the term anamorphic. The movie image is uncompressed when viewed, though the entire image will only be visible on a widescreen television, HDTV, or DTV. Modern films are created in a movie theatre screen format using a range of aspect ratios from 1.85:1 (Academy Flat) to 2.35:1 (Anamorphic Scope, CinemaScope, and Panavision).
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