A panoramic video system obtains a digital video image having a width w1 pixels and a height of h pixels. A plurality of digital still images is also obtained, each still image comprising a ray having a width w2 comprising pixels, 1≤w2≤50, a height substantially equal to h. A storage device records or a display device displays the digital video image and plurality of digital still images. The set of n rays on either or both sides of the first horizontal angle is obtained from the plurality of still images to form one or two still background images, adjacent horizontally to the digital video image, each of the background image(s) having a width of n·w2 and a height substantially equal to h, and each ray forming one vertical stripe of the still background image.