wide-screen [
'waɪd'skrin]
a. 宽银幕的
wide-screen[ adj ]
(motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height
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- She told the Post in an interview published Sunday that some of the money may have become "mingled" into improvements on her home that included a swimming pool, a $2,500 wide-screen television and renovations to her basement.
- It was Bush's second trip to the wide-screen theater, one of the museum's top attractions.
- Proponents of wide-screen TVs claim viewers will find the wider aspect irresistible.
- The wide-screen sets are part of a worldwide trend towards larger screens.
- The rooms would be equipped with advanced viewing systems _ possibly high-definition TV sets, multi-screen sets or wide-screen TV.
- He hosted an afternoon reception for members of the inauguration committee and set aside the early evening to join his family in the White House residence theater to watch the Super Bowl on wide-screen television.
- TV sets incorporating wide-screen CRTs will be available in Europe this fall for use in a new TV system that is an interim step towards the crystal-clear pictures promised by HDTV.
- Thomson, Philips, NBC and the David Sarnoff Research Center have proposed an EDTV system in which existing sets would continue to receive the current U.S. TV signal, while EDTV sets would receive the enhanced picture and wide-screen format.
- In an industry of wide-screen egos and technicolor personalities, the onetime TV weatherman is admittedly kind of gray.