I'm looking for alternatives to black mattes when pillarboxing (4:3 footage shown on a 16:9 screen)

I have some 4:3 footage I want to put in 16:9 video I'm working on, and some 16:9 footage that I want to do something similar too because the far sides of the images is distracting and unnecessary. I don't just want to black it out because that seems distracting to me. I don't want distort the footage to fit 16:9 aspect ratio, either.
When they're showing 4:3 footage on my local HD news, they often replace the vertical black mattes that you'd usually see with some sort of reflection effect. It's kind of a stretched-out, blurry reflection of the sides of the 4:3 footage being shown. It's about the best thing I've seen in terms of not being too distracting. How would you best achieve that? Is there a plug-in out there that does this? Or an effect?
I'd appreciate any advice (including if you have better suggestions).
Thanks!

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I think you can find some nice free HD background animations around, if you don't mind signing up for accounts (google "free HD looping backgrounds"). And, you could use the Reveal Title over the Blobs or Underwater Generator in a pinch, just delete the text and stretch them both out so they span the length of your project.

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