[p1mrx]

Letterboxing has been deemed Ugly by modern web designers. Better to discard useful content until it looks nice.

[ziml77]

It was deemed ugly long before that. TVs have been defaulting to stretching/cropping to avoid letterboxing or pillarboxing for years. And before that, movies were converted with pan-and-scan to fill a 4:3 TV.

[jjgreen]

And DVDs, Sony did this to Visconti's masterpiece Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, monsters