[ELI5] Why do movies always start with a reminder that it has been modified from its original format to fit my screen? Duh…right?
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The long and short of it was it used to be more common that the actual movie was “Wider” than most people’s TVs.
This meant when they made the movie for home viewing they *chopped off* the left and right sections of the movie, so you’re missing stuff. There could be important information, scenes, characters, etc, off on the sides you’re missing. So it was just a warning that hey, you might be missing stuff.
In the earliest days of DVDs they were either sold in different formats for different TVs or the DVDs would come double sided.
That phased out after wide-screen TVs become the norm and now we see the whole image properly.
You can still see the effects if you download some classic games, for example I’m playing through FFIX right now via PlayStation Store and the game is boxed in on either side with gray panels.
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