ITN etc STILL in 4:3

Does anyone know why INT (on ITV, C4 and C5) is not in 16:9? Same goes for
GMTV and Sky news

Dom Robinson wrote:
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Does anyone know why INT (on ITV, C4 and C5) is not in 16:9? Same
goes for GMTV and Sky news



Laziness.

Lack of funds in ITN's case. They have barely enough money allocated
to them to produce the ITV news bulletins, (as you may have noticed).
So they can't go and invest in a pile of ARCs, and upgrade their equipment
for 16:9 anamorphic transmission.

GMTV's studio is 16:9 capable, but AIUI internal ITV politics prevent
them from 'showing up' ITN by broadcasting in widescreen.
The same is true for London Today/Tonight local news. That studio has
been 16:9 equipped for over two years now. In fact the ITV National
weather is also produced in there, and that's 16:9 anamorphic.

As for Sky News, who knows ?

"Dave" wrote in message
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Does anyone know why INT (on ITV, C4 and C5) is not in 16:9? Same goes
for
GMTV and Sky news

Since these are news channels it would be stupid to broadcast in 16:9. Look
at what news is made up of...

Archive footage - How much footage from the last 50 years is in widescreen?
1%?
Amateur footage - People's camcorders. Most camcorders in circulation don't
do 16:9.
Feeds from foreign channels/international news agencies - Depending on the
country, this is very likely to be 4:3.

Basically, the only thing that would be widescreen is the studio links. It
would look as stupid as News 24 does.

It's terrible that they're still 16:9 homophobic

So they can't go and invest in a pile of ARCs, and upgrade their equipment
for 16:9 anamorphic transmission.

GMTV's studio is 16:9 capable, but AIUI internal ITV politics prevent
them from 'showing up' ITN by broadcasting in widescreen.
The same is true for London Today/Tonight local news. That studio has
been 16:9 equipped for over two years now. In fact the ITV National
weather is also produced in there, and that's 16:9 anamorphic.

As for Sky News, who knows ?