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Aspect Ratios – A Wider Vision

Aspect ratio is becoming more widely talked about, particularly with the advent of high quality DVD. Most DVD’s contain a couple of different versions of the movie, in different aspect ratios. What is it, and why does it matter? In simplest terms the aspect ratio of a movie is the size of hole you look at it through, or more explicitly, the ratio between the width and the height of that hole. If this all sounds as boring as logarithms wait till it gets complicated.