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26-431: Voltron Force is an animated television series that premiered on June 16, 2011, exclusively on Nicktoons . It is a sequel to the 1980s animated series Voltron and the 1999 CGI series Voltron: The Third Dimension . It ended after one season on April 25, 2012, with the planned second season being unproduced. The series intro is narrated by Daniel ( Vincent Tong ): Evil is back. The Drule King Lotor has returned with

52-458: A 26 episode season of Voltron Force in 2011 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the original series as well as Mattel 's plans to release a toyline to tie-in with the 25th anniversary of the original series and the launch of the new series. In March 2011, it was announced that Emmy-nominated composer Hal Beckett and Gemini-nominated composer Steffan Andrews , would score the show. The Voltron Force logo and storyboards have been revealed on

78-571: A dark energy that can destroy the galaxy. Our only hope, the Voltron Force: A team of five heroic pilots that control five awesome robot lions. When Lotor's monstrous Robeasts attack, the lions come together to form Voltron, Defender of the Universe. The show centers on the reunion of the original Voltron Force and the group of cadets training to follow in their footsteps. In battle, they pilot their five robot lions and, when necessary, combine them to form

104-514: Is the vertical equivalent of (horizontal) letterboxing and goes by several names, including reverse letterboxing, curtain boxing , or postcarding . Pillarboxing is derived from its resemblance to pillar box –style mailboxes used in the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations . The four-direction equivalent is called windowboxing , caused when programming is both letterboxed and pillarboxed. In order to use

130-479: The Active Format Description ) must be used to tell the display device which to use, or the viewer must set it manually, in order to prevent unnecessary pillarboxing or stretching on widescreen displays. Some high-definition television networks and TV stations use "stylized pillarboxing", meaning they fill-in the blank areas on the sides with their HD logo or other still or motion graphics , when

156-551: The Rob Dyrdek -starring Wild Grinders and NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core , along with sports-related feature films such as Bend It Like Beckham , Cool Runnings , and Space Jam . Sometime in 2015, the block was moved to a Friday prime time slot. The block ended in September 2018. From 2006 until 2009, Nicktoons Network used a robot mascot in bumpers and advertisements for

182-578: The Nickelodeon channel. Some first run shows include As Told By Ginger , Back at the Barnyard , Breadwinners , Bunsen Is a Beast , Harvey Beaks , It's Pony , The Mighty B! , Pig Goat Banana Cricket , Planet Sheen , Robot and Monster , T.U.F.F. Puppy , Welcome to the Wayne , and season 10 of The Fairly OddParents . Some acquired shows that were moved over and finished their runs on

208-541: The United States-down from its 2013 peak of 69,000,000 households. Nicktoons was launched as a standalone channel on May 1, 2002, as Nicktoons TV, part of the digital cable-exclusive MTV Digital Suite, in order to entice cable operators to pick up the network and give them a marketing advantage over satellite services. However, by early 2004, Nickelodeon management changed course and offered it to digital satellite services DirecTV and Dish Network . The network

234-546: The X-Men were effectively cancelled when The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Studios in 2009. Starting in the summer of 2024, the network's entire schedule is exclusively episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants and The Patrick Star Show , promoted as Non-Stop SpongeBob . The episodes air in a random and unthemed order. Since 2006, Nickelodeon has used Nicktoons to burn-off the remaining episodes of under-performing shows. Including shows both acquired and initially created for

260-513: The channel. The mascot, named "ACOW," which stands for Animation Capital of the World, was a complex robot character with a large singular eye, animated using "photo-puppetry." ACOW was prominently featured on the NicktoonsNetwork.com website and was used as part of the "Nicktoons Network: Animation Capital of the World" logo. Several similar-looking eyeball-based characters were seen in promos for

286-503: The closure of THQ and its subsidiaries, the future and rights of the Voltron video games remain in question. At the end of "Black", Daniel still has Haggarium in him and was shown briefly attacking the other members of the Voltron force in the black lion. There was supposed to be a second season which was briefly in the works, but due to complications with budget funding for the second season, it

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312-467: The edges of the program video in the sidebars, usually blurred. Local television stations in the U.S. typically use graphics or a simple color gradient for electronic news-gathering packages shown on their local news programs. Until equipment replacement withdrew the majority of SD cameras from news organizations, portable ENG cameras were often not able to shoot in HD (due to their number and expense), though

338-425: The entire screen area of a widescreen display (which is already significantly less than a fullscreen of equal diagonal measurement), and to prevent a reverse screen burn-in on plasma displays , the simplest alternative to pillarboxing is to crop the top and bottom. However, this results in the loss of some of the image within what the producer assumed would be the safe area . This overscan may or may not bother

364-569: The fall on Nicktoons with an announced premise that "The series follows the exploits of a group of five young cadets brought together under trying circumstances to form a newly appointed Voltron Lion Squad dubbed the "Panthera Force". Voltron Panthera Force is a World Wide Events production in conjunction with Kick Start Production." On April 4, 2010, it was announced that the show's title had been changed from Voltron Panthera Force to Voltron Force . On June 7, 2010, Variety announced WEP Productions, Classic Media and Kickstart Entertainment's plans to air

390-547: The main Nickelodeon channel, with some occasional airing of Nickelodeon's live-action programming depending on Viacom's programming direction at the time. Beginning in the mid-2000s, many older shows such as Rocko's Modern Life and CatDog , were removed from the schedule as more acquired programming and Nicktoons Network originals were premiering, many were cancelled by the early-2010s, with some having different reasons, for example, Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes , Iron Man: Armored Adventures , and Wolverine and

416-534: The mighty robot Voltron. Among the enemies they face are their old nemesis, Lotor, and a corrupt military head intent on destroying Voltron and assassinating the Voltron Force to stage a coup d'état and become president of Galaxy Garrison himself. On March 11, 2010, at the Nickelodeon Upfront Presentation, a new Voltron series entitled Voltron Panthera Force was announced and set for premiere in

442-524: The network include Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks , Ollie's Pack and Rabbids Invasion (though the series moved to Netflix for its fourth and final season). On September 3, 2014, a two-hour Wednesday prime time programming block named NickSports was launched on the channel, tying into the Kids' Choice Sports inaugurated that year. The block presented mainly licensed programming focusing on sports, including

468-446: The network. Pillarbox Some older arcade games that had a tall vertical and short horizontal are displayed in pillarbox even on 4:3 televisions. Some early sound films made between 1928 and 1931, such as Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans , were released in even narrower formats such as 1.20:1 to make room for the sound-on-film track on then-standard film stock. These will appear pillarboxed even on 4:3 screens. Pillarboxing

494-453: The official Facebook profile for the show, which is run by World Events Productions. WEP and video game publisher THQ has announced a partnership to produce video games based on the classic Voltron series and Voltron Force in 2011 and 2012 respectively; However, only the game based on the classic series was released on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in November 2011. Following

520-461: The program being shown is only available in 4:3 aspect ratio ( standard definition ). The use of graphics assures viewers that they are watching the HD version of a channel, instead of their thinking they are watching the SD version, along with filling the entire screen with a video image rather than the regular black bars. This also tells widescreen television sets with automatic resizing not to stretch

546-453: The studio cameras were in high definition. Some channels have a similar format called "enhanced HD", in which extra informative graphics and text is shown on the side, such as expanded stock quotes, charts, and graphs on CNBC HD+ in the past. Some Japanese anime switched from SD to HD during their run. Sometimes a flashback to a scene produced in SD had to be shown. For instance, in Naruto ,

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572-510: The video, and instead to present it in the proper aspect ratio (although conversely, this may cause fullscreen SDTV sets and analog cable TV headends to horizontally compress or to windowbox the video). A limited number of local stations also apply custom pillarboxes, but most have removed them with both the advent of all-HD schedules and customer complaints about erroneous technical information in PSIP data. Some TV shows present an "echo" of

598-534: The viewer, but it often cuts off the channel banner or other on-screen displays . Likewise, the vertical equivalent of pan and scan is called "tilt and scan" or "reverse pan and scan". This moves the cropped "window" up and down, but it is rarely done. A third option is to stretch the video to fill the screen, but this is often considered ugly, as it severely distorts everything on the screen. Because certain screen resolutions can be used for both fullscreen and widescreen ( anamorphic ), widescreen signaling (such as

624-529: Was launched on August 13, 2013, and is available on several providers. Like Viacom's other HD channels, any programming produced in 4:3 SD is pillarboxed on this feed. As the network blended in more Nickelodeon programming into its schedule, the Nicktoons website was sunset to a parking page directing viewers to Nick.com before it was eventually redirected quietly to the latter website. Since its inception, Nicktoons has mainly aired programs carried over from

650-423: Was never made and the show was cancelled, ending it on an unresolved cliffhanger . . Nicktoons (American TV channel) Nicktoons is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Media Networks , a division of Paramount Global . The channel is geared towards children aged 7 to 11. As of December 2023 , Nicktoons is available to approximately 43,000,000 pay television households in

676-488: Was originally marketed as commercial-free, with comedic promos involving Nickelodeon Animation Studios, two-minute cartoon shorts from foreign markets, and former program promotions that had previously been used on Nickelodeon taking up commercial time. By September 23, 2005, as the network's distribution increased, it began to carry regular advertising. On September 28, 2009, the network's logo changed as part of Nickelodeon's universal rebranding effort. A high-definition feed

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