Article: High & wide: as the widescreen, high definition era evolves what happens to all the standard definition stock footage?

For more than 20, years the world of professional video production and post production has largely been defined by the 4:3 aspect ratio of traditional broadcast television.

Much of our recent history -- war political events, historical figures, etc. -- has been captured and archived for later use in feature films, television shows, documentaries, commercials or corporate presentations, And virtually all of it has been recorded in standard definition.

The question, then, is this: As the industry moves into the widescreen-era of high definition video, what's to become of that vast collection of SD images?

Based on an online survey that Post ...

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