Formula 1: widescreen?
 

No.

why

not

?

Because


Bernie hasn't


pulled his
finger

out.

In article , Brendan DJ Murphy
wrote:

Probably because Bernie is broadcasting to a lot of countries and
thinks that most of his audience don't have widescreen. It's annoying
but I think he might be right.

Andrue Cope
[Brackley, UK]

"Phil" wrote in message
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No.

GOOD!!

Probably because Bernie is broadcasting to a lot of countries and
thinks that most of his audience don't have widescreen. It's annoying
but I think he might be right.

Andrue Cope
[Brackley, UK]


But why not simply have 16:9 cameras at the track and give broadcasters the choice of receiving the
full picture or a cropped 4:3 version.

That way everybody is happy.

Brendan

"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in message
...
Probably because Bernie is broadcasting to a lot of countries and
thinks that most of his audience don't have widescreen. It's annoying
but I think he might be right.

Andrue Cope
[Brackley, UK]


But why not simply have 16:9 cameras at the track and give broadcasters the choice of
receiving the
full picture or a cropped 4:3 version.

That way everybody is happy.

Brendan




I suspect they do.
Australia has both standard and high definition digital services so 16:9 broadcasting
is not unusual. However Bernie does control the world wide broadcasting rights etc
so he defines what the world feed is and that would be 4:3 ratio.
If the host broadcaster were free to sell the over seas TV rights as they saw fit and
not under the direction of Bernie we probably would be getting 16:9 from certain events.

It would be a nice touch for Bernie to offer some F1 events in High Def especially as the
US market matures (they have already shown some CART in HD) and F1 would be a
huge bonus for Euro1080's attempt to create an European service.


Mike C

I hope soon it will go widescreen!

If people want to carry on receiving a 4:3 picture like it is now, then just
choose 4:3, but don't stop people wanting that little bit extra!

www.bextech.org.uk -- come and have a rant

"www.Bextech.org.uk" wrote in message
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I hope soon it will go widescreen!

I hope it will soon go off our screens altogether.
Boring crap

Loz