Movies viewed in 16:9 format are they complete from above & down ?

Question

If you watching 16:9 movie in 4:3 tv , you see two black bars above and down the screen .Does the original movie had been cut from above & down or it is like this from origin ?

Answer 1

The movie is filmes wider than it is taller. Inorder to fit the entire width of the picture on your square TV, it has to place bars on the top and bottom. You are actually seeing more of the picture with those bars.

Answer 2

Widescreen movies shown on 4:3 TVs are often "letterboxed" so that the original ratio can be preserved. This may not always be 16:9 (1.78:1) Most widescreen movies are wider than this (2.3:1, sometime even more). How the movie appears on your TV depends on the source and the producer's decision. So you might see some movies with even larger bars at top and bottom than others. Some of these will appear with bars even on a 16:9 TV. This is because the producer wants you to see the whole image as it was originally potographed.

Answer 3

The movie is actually captured in 16:9 format for the movie theater. They can cut off some of the picture to create a 4:3 image but some prefer seeing the film as it was intended. In order to do that your square TV can't perfectly fit a wide image and to fit it all the bars are placed in. Today many HD tv's are 16:9 (in shape) and the bars are removed from top and bottom showing.

Answer 4

the oringinal movie fits on a movie screen witch is 16:9.
the two back bars are just to fill in the extra space on a 4:3
4:3 x 3 = 12:9 / 16;9
animorfic will strech the film
full screen will cut the sides off film Left / right

Answer 5

in some cases yes but mostly it is still the same picture different format i have no idea how they do that but it' the same.