What is the difference between anamorphic widescreen and widescreen?

Answer 1

full screen cuts off the left and right sides of the picture to make it fit on a 4:3 aspect ration tv screen. (it makes it square more or less) while widescreen actually shows you the entire picture that was originally shot.

Answer 2

Widescreen is a 16X9 aspect ratio, the same as most TVs today, computer screens, etc. So if you watch something in widescreen, it fills up the screen. It is called widescreen, because the aspect ratio of video and movies used to be 4X3 (the older square TVs)

Anamorphic widescreen is typically 2.35:1 aspect ratio. This is where you get the black bars above and bellow the screen. That size is the standard size for cinema screens, and this is the size movies are filmed with. People get annoyed by the black bars, but the full screen cuts off way more, because they were filmed to be fitted for a wider screen, and when played on a 16X9 screen, the video shows letterboxing (the black bars) Also remember that people may refer to anamorphic widescreen as just widescreen and vice versa.

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Answer 3

The difference between full HD and WXGA is that they each have different pixel resolutions. Full HD has a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels while WXGA has 1366 by 768 pixels.