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
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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.



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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.

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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.

It also has the handy side-effect of removing the originators DOG

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It's called 'progress' or the "modern way" you fork out a fortune to
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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.


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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.
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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
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In article ,
says...

Your text appears to be in widescreen as well ;-)

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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.

"Lurch" wrote in message
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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.

Education is not entertainment.

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Regards,
Stuart.

In article , says...
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
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Jim

Clearly, LTC, your viewing is upside down as you're top-posting.

Look up "golden ratio" and you'll see that the human field of vision is a
ratio of 1.61:1. Still, you're probably more into "golden showers" given the
amount of **** you're talking.
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