Originally Posted by Virtual Monkey 
The reason cinema moved to widescreen format in the first place was to distinguish itself from regular 4:3 TV, then when TV changed to 16:9, cinema changed again to 2:1 or whatever it is now. If television did switch to ultra-wide format, cinema aspect ratio would get even wider
I can't really see much point in this, even if you only watch films, most films more than 3 or 4 years old would have black bars at the side anyway.
Cinema has been very wide waaaaaaay before TV was ever thinking about widescreen.
Star Wars, for instance, was filmed at 2.20:1 way back in 1977.
Or even in 1959 when Ben Hur was filmed in 2.76:1