With widescreen display becoming the norm in US and other cultural societies, and hours of tape that have been acquired in 4:3 modes, editors/producers are faced with a few new choices as to how to make their existing SD footage fit in the world of HD. There are several courses of action that may be taken, but each carries with it a small cost. However, as we move towards the future as editors, we must consider the fact that "Uncle Joe" bought a widescreen display (whether its HD or not) and he doesn't want to see pillarboxes on his screen, nor does he want to see a wedding video in which his 5'7" neice has become a 5'1" oompa-loompa either. Of course, if his display is a high def display, there is a great chance the television will autostretch the image on it's own and may get the aspect ratio correct, but lose a tremendous amount of resolution in the process. In the near future, media formats will be exclusively widescreen; 4:3 is all but dead, and you'll need to learn to use widescreen as a shooting and editing format, and better sooner than later.
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