http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/ Engadget HD Comments for YouTube shifts to a widescreen view of internet video http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/Nov 25th 2008 4:53PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/Nov 25th 2008 5:48PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/the rest of the world except the US has had widescreen TV for 11 years now and widescreen camcorders for even longer!]]>Nov 26th 2008 2:48AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/25/youtube-shifts-to-a-widescreen-view-of-internet-video/

** For those of you that have stumbled upon the page and don't know 16:9 doesn't crop the top and bottom, but 4:3 does as well as the sides. Also you're not losing anything in the black bars, and I mean anything. Black bars aka "letterboxing" occurs when the video/film was shot in a different aspect ratio than the screen you're watching it on, nothing as "chopped off".]]>Nov 27th 2008 1:24AM