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pan and scan

A method of printing movies for presentation on television that modifies the rectangular theater image by trimming the sides and focusing on significant action within the newly truncated image.

pan-and-scan (p

nd-sk

) adj.

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No references found			On disc one there is the pan-and-scan version - which involves just picking part of the picture and letting it take up the entire TV screen - and more family features, and on the other disc contains the widescreen version and more technology pieces. VIDEO OGRE LOADED DREAMWORKS PACKS ``SHREK'' DVD WITH 11 HOURS OF ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Entire films can be stored on a single DVD, usually in both pan-and-scan and letterbox formats, meaning, in effect, accommodating two complete films per disc. Toshiba SD-2006 and Panasonic DVD-A100 DVD Players by Puccio, John J. / Sensible Sound The film is Samuel Fuller's ``The Big Red One'' (Warner, 1980, PG; one hour, 53 minutes, disc contains wide-screen and pan-and-scan versions, Dolby Digital stereo surround sound; $19. VIDEO : CLASSIC WAR FILMS COME TO DVD by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)			Pan American Day Pan American Union pan and scan pan and tilt head pan fish pan gravy Pan Gu pan loaf pan off pan out Pan paniscus pan potentiometer pan roast Pan troglodytes Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii Pan troglodytes troglodytes Pan troglodytes verus pan- Pan-African Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanist Congress Pan-American Pan-American Congress Pan-American Highway Pan-Americanism pan-and-scan Pan-Anglican Pan-Arabic Pan-Arabism Pan-Asian pan-broil Pan-Buddhism Pan-Cake Pan-European pan-fry Pan-Germanism Pan-Hellenic Pan-Islamism Pan-Satanism Pan-Slavism Pan-telegraph Pan-Teutonism Pan. Panabase panacea Panacean panache panada Panade Panadol panaesthesia			Pan-America Hyperbarics, Inc. Pan-American Pan-American Pan-American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Pan-American Association of Biochemical Societies Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology Pan-American Climate Information System Pan-American Conference on Research on Fluid Inclusions Pan-American Conferences Pan-American Conferences Pan-American Conferences Pan-American Congress Pan-American Disaster Response Unit Pan-American Federation of Labor Pan-American Games Pan-American Health Organization Pan-American Highway Pan-American Highway Pan-American Institute of Maritime Archaeology Pan-American jig Pan-American Powerlifting Federation Pan-American Society for Pigment Cell Research Pan-American Technology Group Pan-American Union Pan-American Union Pan-American Union Pan-American Wushu Federation Pan-Americanism Pan-Americanism pan-and-roll roofing tile pan-and-scan Pan-Anglican pan-Arab pan-Arab Pan-Arab African Council of Ophthalmology Pan-Arab Free Trade Agreement Pan-Arab movement Pan-Arab movement Pan-Arab nationalism Pan-Arab nationalism Pan-Arab unity Pan-Arab unity Pan-Arabic Pan-Arabism Pan-Arabism Pan-Arctic Tracking of Beluga Whales Pan-Armenian National Movement Pan-aryanism Pan-Asia Market Research Institute Pan-Asian Pan-Asian American Community House Pan-Asian Association for Cultural Exchange Pan-Asian Bond Index Fund Pan-Asian Boxing Association Pan-Asian Coalition Pan-Asian Modified Mediterranean Diet Pan-Babylonism Pan-Bath and Swindon Primary Care Research Consortium Pan-Birmingham Cancer Network pan-broil

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