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On 2006-07-25, Gendy wrote:
This has been thoroughly discussed on DigitalSpy...

Your point being?

I'd have thought that was pretty obvious.

As it says on the tin, "This has been thoroughly discussed on DigitalSpy...".

Seemed a pretty unambiguous statement to me.

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On 2006-07-25, Gendy wrote:
This has been thoroughly discussed on DigitalSpy...

Your point being?

I'd have thought that was pretty obvious.

As it says on the tin, "This has been thoroughly discussed on
DigitalSpy...".

Seemed a pretty unambiguous statement to me.

The fact that some other people have had another discussion somewhere
else isn't in this case pertinent to this discussion, here in
uk.tech.digital-tv. Any topic that comes up on usenet is likely to also
be discussed elsewhere. If it is pretty obvious then it is also pretty
irrelevant!

Fair enough! That being the case, why bother asking the question at
all? If I felt that way, I just wouldn't have bothered asking what I
already knew to be a pointless question. :-)

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I am disgusted that Film4 are now cropping films from
2.35:1 or 1.85:1 to 16:9.


What do you think about 4:3 programs being cropped to 16:9?

You gotta love widescreen, best thing since the plague.



I refuse to watch 4:3 programmes cropped to 16:9 too.

Kind of limits your viewing choces somewhat, losing
50 years or so of broadcsting.

Why would that be? all widescreen tvs can display 4:3 pictures in
4:3

But they cannot replace the bits chopped off when 4:3 footage is shown
on a program made in 16:9


What the **** are you on about? can any tv do this?

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"{{{{{Welcome}}}}}" wrote in
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Thus spaketh Bazzer Smith:
"{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
wrote in message
.uk...
I am disgusted that Film4 are now cropping films from
2.35:1 or 1.85:1 to 16:9.


What do you think about 4:3 programs being cropped to 16:9?

You gotta love widescreen, best thing since the plague.



I refuse to watch 4:3 programmes cropped to 16:9 too.

Kind of limits your viewing choces somewhat, losing
50 years or so of broadcsting.

Why would that be? all widescreen tvs can display 4:3 pictures in
4:3

But they cannot replace the bits chopped off when 4:3 footage is shown
on a program made in 16:9


What the **** are you on about? can any tv do this?


I don't know whether you are trying to make me or you sound like a fool.
Either way I think you have suceeeded :O)



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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:47:28 GMT, "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
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Thus spaketh Bazzer Smith:
"{{{{{Welcome}}}}}" wrote

I refuse to watch 4:3 programmes cropped to 16:9 too.

Kind of limits your viewing choces somewhat, losing
50 years or so of broadcsting.


Not really as most 4:3 programmes aren't cropped to 16:9 they are
broadcast as they should be in 4:3.

Certain digital channels (e.g. CBBC, BBC THREE and NEWS24) are fixed
widescreen only. These channels usually crop 4:3 programmes
so that they can be shown as a shallow pillarbox in a 16:9 frame.

Nick.

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Nick Austin wrote:

Certain digital channels (e.g. CBBC, BBC THREE and NEWS24) are fixed
widescreen only. These channels usually crop 4:3 programmes
so that they can be shown as a shallow pillarbox in a 16:9 frame.

I hesitate to join a thread which involves "Bazzer Smith", but this
isn't quite right, is it? Yes, all the BBC channels transmit 4:3
material differently from the non-BBC channels, but the 4:3 material
is shown in its entirety, padded out with black bars on each side to
fill a 16:9 frame. It isn't cropped.

André Coutanche

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"André Coutanche" wrote:

Nick Austin wrote:

Certain digital channels (e.g. CBBC, BBC THREE and NEWS24) are fixed
widescreen only. These channels usually crop 4:3 programmes so that
they can be shown as a shallow pillarbox in a 16:9 frame.

I hesitate to join a thread which involves "Bazzer Smith", but this
isn't quite right, is it? Yes, all the BBC channels transmit 4:3
material differently from the non-BBC channels, but the 4:3 material
is shown in its entirety, padded out with black bars on each side to
fill a 16:9 frame. It isn't cropped.

Not CBBC: they top and tail the picture to 14:9 format and then pillarbox
that. Even on analogue, where you end up with the top and bottom of the
picture replaced by black bars on a 4:3 set (this really annoys me). I
wouldn't be surprised to learn that some other channels did the same thing.

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