This is is not a press-click, but a light, quick, double tap. I believe it also existed in tvOS 11.2.x,īasically, if you’re watching letterboxed content, you can toggle back and forth between letterbox mode and full-screen mode with a light double tap on the Siri remote’s glass touch sensitive area. But the TMO team confirmed this function on both an Apple TV 4th Gen and an Apple TV 4K, both running tvOS 11.3. I don’t know when it was introduced because the Apple TV User Guide doesn’t discuss it. There is an interesting feature of the latest Apple TVs. However, if they annoy you, this tip will help. This is called letterboxing.īy the way, modern TVs of any kind (and older Plasmas), do not suffer from the persistence of these black bars over the short period of a two hour movie. To be quite brief, when a high-aspect ratio movie is displayed on your HDTV or UHDTV whose physical aspect ratio is 1.78:1, the movie’s narrower image must necessarily have a black border above and below in order to preserve its original aspect ratio. If you want to know a movie’s aspect ratio, you can usually find out by looking it up in the International Movie Database,, under the Technical Specs section. The Martian, shown above, was released at 2.35:1. For example, Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released at 2.39:1. The popular aspect ratios have changed over time, but this is a common range today. However, theatrical movies, even before the high definition era, have been “filmed” with aspect ratios ranging from 1.85:1 to 2.39:1 - or higher. The content matches the physical aspect ratio of the TV display perfectly. Most (ultra) high definition TV shows that you watch on cable/satellite/streaming are mastered in that ratio as well. Modern high definition TV displays have a whole number aspect ratio of 16 wide by 9 high. The Apple TV’s Siri remote has a nifty feature that allows you to switch between letterbox and full-screen mode.
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