Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Letterboxing (Lettershlocking) Rebuttal

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This page aims to do several things: 1) provide objective factual information about letterboxing or so-called "widescreen" versions of films on video and television (which should more accurately be called lettershlocking or "cutscreen"; 2) to help organize the opposition and resistance to this vilest form of movie censorship and to HDTV (they want to force you to buy new tvs with different dimensions designed to fit lettershlocking, and to take away our rights to watch and enjoy television as it now is), as well as to DVD (the format that the vile lettershlock censors are trying to foist off on us, it features built-in lettershlocking, believe it or not!); 3) to organize opposition to the DVD format. The vast majority of tv viewers must speak out before the vile lettershlockers take away television, movies, and videos from us.



FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT IS "LETTERBOXING" (LETTERSHLOCKING)?

"Letterboxing" is the vile practice of censoring movies on video and broadcast television or cable by blocking the top and bottom of the television screen with black bars so that you cannot watch or enjoy the movie. Letterboxing/Lettershlocking censorship ignores the fact that the television screen is a different shape than the movie screen, so that the movie must be correctly formatted to fit the television screen.

2. WHAT IS "WIDESCREEN"?

"Widescreen" is the same thing as "letterboxing"/lettershlocking. The term is used as propaganda to actually suggest that these censored renditions of the films are somehow better, preferable, superior. Further, the term itself is an absolute lie. The width of the television screen, obviously, is a fixed physical dimension. The image presented in lettershlocked "widescreen" garbage is the same width as any other television image. The top and bottom of the screen, rather than containing an image, is now blocked by black bars so that no image at all appears there. This is why a more accurate term than "widescreen" would be "cutscreen" or /widescreen, watching or enjoying the film.. 99.999999999999% of the viewing public recognizes this for the atrocity it is. Yet the advocates of this want to take away your right to watch and enjoy movies on video, broadcast tv and cable, by pushing this lettershlocking on us. They can and must be stopped. They will be. The twenty-first century will be a totally lettershlock-free time! FREEDOM!

3. WHAT CAN WE DO?

To preserve our right to watch and enjoy movies on video and television, we can: