Pillarbox

The technique of formatting a non-widescreen picture to fit within a widescreen frame. Pillarboxed video refers to a 16:9 recording that contains a 4:3 image. Such non-widescreen images fill the 16:9 frame vertically, but not horizontally. Black bars therefore appear on both sides of the image. Pillarboxed images can be restored to 4:3 by edge cropping the black side bars.

1080i
1080p
16:9
24p
3-2 Pull-Down
4:3
720p
Active Line
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Bandwidth
Beta SP
BluRay
Byte
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CD Business Card
CD Duplication
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CD-Recordable
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DLT and SDLT
Digital Asset Management
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Down-Conversion
DVCAM
DVCPro HD
DVD
DVD Authoring
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DVD Replication
DVD-R
DVD-Audio
Edge Crop
Encoding
Field
Frame
Frame Rate
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HD DVD
HDCAM
HDV
High Definition
High Definition DVD

Injection Molding
Interlaced
Jewel Case
JPEG
Letterbox
Line
Macrovision
Mini CD
Mini DVD
MPEG
Multimedia
NTSC
PAL
Pillarbox
Progressive
Pull-Down Conversion
Replication
Resolution
ROM
SECAM
Standard-Definition
Up-Conversion
Variable Bit Rate
Widescreen
XDCAM HD

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