> Am I the only human being who doesn't know what letterboxed means? I
>assume I must have been exposed and just don't know what I saw? HELP
>
_This_ is letterboxing:
_____________________________
|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| The basic idea is to make your square tele-
|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| vision screen to appear as a wide screen as
| | in the movie theatre, so that you do not miss
| | "important" stuff that wuld otherwise be lost
| | in the fringes. For example, in _Indiana Jones
| | and the Last Cusade_, in the theater we saw a
| | dialogue between Indy and his dad which went
|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| spanned the whole screen. In the video ver-
|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| sion, they re-edited and made it shot/reverse
----------------------------- shot.