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n. See mailbox.

n. A format for presenting movies on television that maintains the rectangular theater image on a television screen by reducing the overall image until the full width can be seen, resulting in blank space above and below the image.

v. To produce or present (film) in a letterbox format.

adj. Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area.

n. a mailbox

v. To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.

"To within a few millimetres, human brains share a reading hotspot - what Stanislas Dehaene calls the "letterbox" - on the bottom of the left hemisphere."

pan and scan    full screen    tilt and scan    widescreen    pillarbox   

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