General feature: Widescreen

Over the past years, widescreen image has become a standard for movies. Also tv channels are changing their image into widescreen. But why is that?

History of widescreen
Widescreen is established by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1931. First, it was only covering the top and the bottom of a standard tv image (4:3). It was the 50s that widescreen started to become a standard for mainstream movies because in that time, that was the beginning of TV competition. In 1952, 20'th Century Fox, a famous movie company has acquired the rights of using widescreen in their movies.

From the 50s, it was only possible to watch widescreen at cinema since the TV was still in the developing. Starting from the 90s, widescreen televisions are created.
Nowadays, most of the tv and computer monitors that are offered are widescreen.

How will the future widescreen TV look like?

First we had the standard tv image (4:3), later on we moved to (16:9). Home entertainment is growing and when we are watching a movie at home, we want to have the same experience as in the cinema. The future widescreen will then be 21:9. This is the image ratio that cinema's are using now.

Here is a video to give you a better impression of the future widescreen tvs