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Widesreen oddity
I have a 32" widescreen LCD and a Freeview PVR all set to view 'widescreen' format, the other night while watching BBC West local news I noticed that there are narrow black bars vertically down both sides of the picture, I wouldn't say the picture was anywhere near 4x3 but it was not 16x9 either. The picture reverted back to fill the screen when we were returned to the closing national news summary shortly before 7pm. What screen format is BBC West transmitted in? It seems odd the it's not the same format as the BBC national transmissions.
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"the_engineer" wrote in message k... I have a 32" widescreen LCD and a Freeview PVR all set to view 'widescreen' format, the other night while watching BBC West local news I noticed that there are narrow black bars vertically down both sides of the picture, I wouldn't say the picture was anywhere near 4x3 but it was not 16x9 either. The picture reverted back to fill the screen when we were returned to the closing national news summary shortly before 7pm. What screen format is BBC West transmitted in? It seems odd the it's not the same format as the BBC national transmissions. they somtimes insert 14:9 stuff into the news. -- Gareth. That fly... is your magic wand. http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/ |
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the_engineer wrote:
I have a 32" widescreen LCD and a Freeview PVR all set to view 'widescreen' format, the other night while watching BBC West local news I noticed that there are narrow black bars vertically down both sides of the picture, I wouldn't say the picture was anywhere near 4x3 but it was not 16x9 either. The picture reverted back to fill the screen when we were returned to the closing national news summary shortly before 7pm. What screen format is BBC West transmitted in? It seems odd the it's not the same format as the BBC national transmissions. BBC West's regional news programmes are transmitted on DTT and D-Sat was 14P16. That is a 4:3 image zoomed slightly to give narrow side bars when viewed in 16:9. It's because their studio is not yet 16:9 capable. It's a standard method for all UK broadcasters to treat 4:3 originated material and images. Take a look at the ITV national news, or any clip from a foreign broadcaster etc on the BBC national news. -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. |
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Mark Carver wrote:
the_engineer wrote: I have a 32" widescreen LCD and a Freeview PVR all set to view 'widescreen' format, the other night while watching BBC West local news I noticed that there are narrow black bars vertically down both sides of the picture, I wouldn't say the picture was anywhere near 4x3 but it was not 16x9 either. The picture reverted back to fill the screen when we were returned to the closing national news summary shortly before 7pm. What screen format is BBC West transmitted in? It seems odd the it's not the same format as the BBC national transmissions. BBC West's regional news programmes are transmitted on DTT and D-Sat was 14P16. That is a 4:3 image zoomed slightly to give narrow side bars when viewed in 16:9. It's because their studio is not yet 16:9 capable. It's a standard method for all UK broadcasters to treat 4:3 originated material and images. Take a look at the ITV national news, or any clip from a foreign broadcaster etc on the BBC national news. It also has the handy side-effect of removing the originators DOG -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" |
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It's called 'progress' or the "modern way" you fork out a fortune to
watch TV which is nothing but an annoyance and a pain in the ass. Someone is making a packet out of it though. Lets face it you 4:3 set was the ideal TV viewing platform and now u r stuck with a pile of kack. "the_engineer" wrote in message k... I have a 32" widescreen LCD and a Freeview PVR all set to view 'widescreen' format, the other night while watching BBC West local news I noticed that there are narrow black bars vertically down both sides of the picture, I wouldn't say the picture was anywhere near 4x3 but it was not 16x9 either. The picture reverted back to fill the screen when we were returned to the closing national news summary shortly before 7pm. What screen format is BBC West transmitted in? It seems odd the it's not the same format as the BBC national transmissions. --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet downloading made easy =--------- -= Get GrabIt for free from http://www.shemes.com/ =- |
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On Mon, 07 May 2007 19:03:48 GMT, "Lord Turkey Cough"
mused: It's called 'progress' or the "modern way" you fork out a fortune to watch TV which is nothing but an annoyance and a pain in the ass. Someone is making a packet out of it though. Lets face it you 4:3 set was the ideal TV viewing platform and now u r stuck with a pile of kack. Your getting boring now. -- Regards, Stuart. |
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Yea it is pain reading lones so long.
Keep em short. So much easier, unfortunately human vision is not widescreen its round, despite what the association of high priced telly retailers might wish u to believe. "Jim Mason" wrote in message t... In article , says... Your text appears to be in widescreen as well ;-) "Don't post anything but plain text to Usenet, except to groups where other formats are explicitly allowed. No HTML, no vCards, no GIFs or other binaries. (You can put your material onto the Web and include the URL into your posting.) Don't use any program for posting to Usenet before checking the settings so that your message won't be sent in a non-text format by it. Plain text means it's text only, with line length under 80 (preferably under 72) characters; it doesn't mean boring or careless text." http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html Jim -- Remove `spamtrapped` to reply off-list http://jim-mason.fotopic.net/ |
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Lurch wrote:
On Mon, 07 May 2007 19:03:48 GMT, "Lord Turkey Cough" mused: It's called 'progress' or the "modern way" you fork out a fortune to watch TV which is nothing but an annoyance and a pain in the ass. Someone is making a packet out of it though. Lets face it you 4:3 set was the ideal TV viewing platform and now u r stuck with a pile of kack. Your getting boring now. He's been boring for years Lots of different names, just one brain cell. |
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"Lurch" wrote in message ... On Mon, 07 May 2007 19:03:48 GMT, "Lord Turkey Cough" mused: It's called 'progress' or the "modern way" you fork out a fortune to watch TV which is nothing but an annoyance and a pain in the ass. Someone is making a packet out of it though. Lets face it you 4:3 set was the ideal TV viewing platform and now u r stuck with a pile of kack. Your getting boring now. Education is not entertainment. -- Regards, Stuart. |
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Are you the same twit who kept posting here a year or so back? Can't
remember what name you used then but you're full of the same ****. We were all hoping you'd killed yourself "Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message ... Yea it is pain reading lones so long. Keep em short. So much easier, unfortunately human vision is not widescreen its round, despite what the association of high priced telly retailers might wish u to believe. |
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In article ,
says... Are you the same twit who kept posting here a year or so back? Can't remember what name you used then but you're full of the same ****. We were all hoping you'd killed yourself "Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message ... Yea it is pain reading lones so long. Keep em short. So much easier, unfortunately human vision is not widescreen its round, despite what the association of high priced telly retailers might wish u to believe. Half-pint, most likely. -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor) /* 1132 DVDs, 347 games, 314 CDs, 110 cinema films, 42 concerts, videos & news /* antibodies, steve hillage, burning crusade, sega psp, norah jones, kylie New music charts - http://dvdfever.co.uk/music.shtml Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DVDfeverDom |
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Dom Robinson wrote:
In article , says... Are you the same twit who kept posting here a year or so back? Can't remember what name you used then but you're full of the same ****. We were all hoping you'd killed yourself "Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message ... Yea it is pain reading lones so long. Keep em short. So much easier, unfortunately human vision is not widescreen its round, despite what the association of high priced telly retailers might wish u to believe. Half-pint, most likely. "Emperor's New Widescreen" also. BTW, I'm using Thunderbird on a Mac temporarily, and can't figure out how to filter threads. I've tried "ignore thread" but no joy. I'd particularly like to stop the slime from the Dr Who cretins from oozing into this n/g. can anyone help, please? |
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Ian wrote:
"Emperor's New Widescreen" also. BTW, I'm using Thunderbird on a Mac temporarily, and can't figure out how to filter threads. I've tried "ignore thread" but no joy. That should mark all messages in that thread as read. If you then do ViewThreadsThreads with unread you won't see that thread again. I'd particularly like to stop the slime from the Dr Who cretins from oozing into this n/g. can anyone help, please? If you want to set up a filter based on a message then do MessageCreate filter from message. That will bring up a dialogue to let you set up a message filter. I'd recommend doing the actions Mark as Read *and* Delete Message. Otherwise do ToolsMessage Filters and that lets you set up filters for a group or for the whole usenet service. Frankly thunderbird doesn't do usenet filtering terribly well. For example it could do with being able to set up more intelligent killfile rules such as stopping crossposted messages. Stewart |
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In article ,
says... Dom Robinson wrote: In article , says... Are you the same twit who kept posting here a year or so back? Can't remember what name you used then but you're full of the same ****. We were all hoping you'd killed yourself "Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message ... Yea it is pain reading lones so long. Keep em short. So much easier, unfortunately human vision is not widescreen its round, despite what the association of high priced telly retailers might wish u to believe. Half-pint, most likely. "Emperor's New Widescreen" also. Ah, yes, I remember that one. BTW, I'm using Thunderbird on a Mac temporarily, and can't figure out how to filter threads. I've tried "ignore thread" but no joy. I'd particularly like to stop the slime from the Dr Who cretins from oozing into this n/g. can anyone help, please? I use Gravity (for newsreading, as well as for general day-to-day activities :) -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor) /* 1132 DVDs, 347 games, 314 CDs, 110 cinema films, 42 concerts, videos & news /* antibodies, steve hillage, burning crusade, sega psp, norah jones, kylie New music charts - http://dvdfever.co.uk/music.shtml Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DVDfeverDom |
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