A pair of red velvet curtains that suction cup to the front of a widescreen television.

For use on those occasions when you are viewing a normal 4:3 aspect ratio image on a 16:9 widescreen. Lets you ignore all that black frame and unused screen space you paid thousands for. Simply remove when you return to viewing a wide aspect picture.

Custom embroidered monograms available at extra cost.
-- wombat, Nov 06 2003

Suction cups?! That hardly invokes the theater experience - the curtains should come with a mahogany casement or something
-- DrCurry, Nov 06 2003


I want to be able to move them via the remote control (easy technology). I could use them to tease my cats too - to divert their attention from my wife's jigsaw PUZZLE. I want them I want them.
-- dobtabulous, Nov 07 2003


Why not digital curtains? open close curtains added to the remote.
-- popbottle, Oct 15 2014


Does it come with the coughing, the ringing mobile phones, the two people behind you discussing the plot..
-- not_morrison_rm, Oct 15 2014


How did we get so far with so few votes?
-- normzone, Oct 16 2014


You're clearly not familiar with the English political system.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 17 2014


What [MB] said.

Under the first-past-the-post system, a Government can be elected into power with a working parliamentary majority having received no more than 18% of the total votes cast.
-- 8th of 7, Oct 17 2014


Keeps the dust off too.
-- doctorremulac3, Oct 17 2014


Rant/Question: Do some people actually prefer to watch a 4:3 image stretched to 16:9 rather than have black bars on the sides? It seems like whenever someone with an HDTV has a non-HD video being played, inevitably it is stretched to fit. Even at the the 1B+ market cap company where I work, for the company meeting they have a 4:3 camera at headquarters recording the CEO talking and display it stretched to a 16:9 screen at the remote site where I work.

Am I just strange for caring about that, or are our IT guys just lazy or incompetent?
-- scad mientist, Oct 17 2014


Surely most TVs have an option to change the picture format (eg, stretched; cropped top and bottom; black bars etc)?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 17 2014



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