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 random, halfbakery