But let's back up a second; what is an anamorphic lens? Videographers, and certain experimental photographers, will already ...

The method used for storing wide screen movies on DVDs to maximize the resolution on wide screen TVs as well as standard TVs that support anamorphic mode. Similar to the way an anamorphic lens ...

A movie camera lens that horizontally squeezes a wide screen image into a standard 35mm frame. When projected, an anamorphic lens stretches the 35mm frame horizontally and fills a wide screen.

In order to allow widescreen TV owners to see a movie on their widescreen TV without sacrificing image clarity, anamorphic DVDs were created. Anamorphic DVDs are specially encoded to include more ...