letterboxed

letterboxed
also letterbox adjective Etymology: perhaps from the resemblance of the picture on the TV screen or the bands above and below the picture to slots in a mailbox Date: 1989 of a video recording formatted so as to display the full rectangular frame of a wide-screen motion picture • letterboxing noun

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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