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ChainsawAsh
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4:3(1.33:1) to 16:9 question
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Date created
25-Mar-2011, 4:29 PM

1.66:1 is a weird beast.  You can either do it letterboxed, and have black bars all the way around on a 16:9 TV but look right on a 4:3, or you can pillarbox the sides and fit it in a 1.78:1 frame for 16:9 TVs, meaning that on a 4:3 with no overscan, there will be black bars all the way around.

There's not really a good way to do it.  Take a look at the Ultimate Editions of the early Bond films (like, the first 3) to see how they handled 1.66:1 in a 1.78:1 frame.