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Rectangles of different proportion showing how a picture is fitted.
Also known as: Picture size button, Zoom setting
Aspect ratio controls choose how a picture of one shape is fitted to a screen of another: letterboxed with bars, zoomed with the edges cut off, or stretched. All three are compromises, and the stretched option is the one most viewers leave on by accident.
Select how a picture is fitted to a screen of a different shape, drawn as rectangles of differing proportion.
Contexts: Electrical equipment
Offer only compromises: bars preserve the whole image, zoom crops it, and stretching distorts it, and there is no option that does none of the three.
Contexts: Electrical equipment
Two or three rectangles of different proportions drawn one inside another or side by side.