The 19-inch screen has a 16:10 aspect ratio for wide-screen movies.

But this "smart stretch" mode helps compensate for the loss of size by making every show look like a wide-screen movie.

I am perfectly aware that purists want wide-screen movies in order to see the director's conception of a movie.

"Will it be a wide-screen movie?"

Angel's Diary claimed as a new presence in Indonesia with high drama editing and shooting classes with wide-screen movies.

It's torture watching wide-screen movies on regular television screens.

My wide-screen movies would probably account for around 15 percent of the viewing time, so the black or gray bars wouldn't "burn" the screen.

The hard-working sales manager plugged his DVD player showing a wide-screen movie into the 4:3 television and my world collapsed.

When he got it, it was like a wide-screen movie with overpowering stereo sound, a movie that froze him in his tracks, wherever he was.

(A retrospective devoted to these wide-screen movies is in progress through May 30 at Film Forum 2.)