What is "wide-screen"

Usage examples of "wide-screen".

It was as if a movie projectionist had just realized he was using the wrong lens and switched, turning boxy thirty-five millimeter into wide-screen Cinerama 70.

Or, if you preferred and so chose, jackable into a good old pre-millennial wide-screen TV with at most a coaxial or two?

Formerly called the Majestic Hotel, the club features a wide-screen theater for Hollywood feature films on the second floor.

A gang of four masked men, heavily armed, disturbed while carrying out a burglarywell, he reckoned he could fit names to at least two of those hidden faces, possibly three, and it wouldn't surprise him if by the time he got out to the shop there hadn't been a call enquiring, in the most roundabout of terms, if he might be interested in enlarging his stock to the tune of a couple of dozen state-of-the-art wide-screen, digital-sound TVs.

The kids loved Mamaw, her wide-screen TV, her weakness for sweets, her little dog, Shasta, who could count to ten, the "hootchie-cootchie" dance she did to make them laugh, and her new friend, Tito, who drank a bottle of beer, wiggled his ears, and stood on his head in his underwear.

It's the size of a high-end stereo system or a wide-screen television.