Slang for pan-and-scan, the much-maligned practice of cropping a widescreen film to fit a standard 4:3 TV screen by panning and zooming rather than presenting the original aspect ratio. Calling it a 'foolscreen' was home-cinema enthusiasts' way of mocking the format — as opposed to the preferred 'fullscreen' label that studios brazenly put on these butchered releases. The term peaked in the DVD era when cinephiles waged constant war against pan-and-scan packaging.
He checked the DVD case carefully before buying, having been burned before by foolscreen editions that cut off half the composition.
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(slang) Pan and scan.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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