Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Question: Why aren't there any widescreen cinemas yet?
> > 
> > At risk of entirely misunderstanding the question, all cinemas have shown all
> > films in 16:9 or wider for almost a hundred years.

> Really?

> Huh, well, you learn something every day. The picture always looked 
> fairly square to me...

  I'm beginning to suspect that this is not Andrew, and instead some troll
is posting using his nickname.

  If even TV is not square (it's 4:3), how in the world could you ever
think that movies are square? I don't get it.

  The narrowest aspect ratio used in movies for the past 20+ years has
usually been 1.85:1. The most common aspect ratios for big movies today
is 2.25:1 and even 2.35:1 (that's well over twice as wide as tall).

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