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Post by Michael on Jul 11, 2005 18:41:37 GMT
I know this is off topic,but can anyone explain why the ITN/ITV News and the regional news are still in 4:3 Acadamy ratio?
Virtually every single program now is in 16:9,barring the sunday night documentry on ITV looking back at peoples lives through their old cine films and how they are now;which I did see this sunday and was surprised that it was in 4:3 and was copyrighted to ITV 2005,and the endcap was the ITV logo with the words "An ITV Production".
Can anyone enlighten me?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by Paul Reid on Jul 11, 2005 19:06:44 GMT
The ITN Grays Inn studios have not been converted to digital widescreen as yet - due to cost and probably belt tightening when Granada drove a very hard deal for ITN to continue supplying news for ITV. (They have lost the Channel 5 contract to Sky).
I believe this and the remaining regional news studios are to be converted over the coming months ... Anglia News for one is still 4:3 as well
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Post by Lance on Jul 11, 2005 22:41:18 GMT
i suppose its important if you have a 16.9 tv set? to see a bit bit more of Trevor McDonald's keyboard that he never uses.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jul 12, 2005 18:58:14 GMT
Ah, the sucking in of the masses to the great 16:9 con, continues.
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Post by Barry Hodge on Jul 13, 2005 20:57:12 GMT
Then why is is presented as (albeit faux-) widescreen on Freeview? I've seen that it's 4:3 on analogue, but it's been slightly pillarboxed widescreen on Freeview for quite some time, with the logo and other pieces of info half in-frame, etc. Looks very shoddy and rather cheap.
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Post by guest on Jul 18, 2005 18:22:55 GMT
isn't 16:9 a dirty expression on this forum, after all if you are a devoted fan of watching old television then converting to a 16:9 tv is going to be a waste of time as you are only going to be using 2/3 of your screen.
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Post by Nosmo King on Jul 18, 2005 19:20:53 GMT
isn't 16:9 a dirty expression on this forum, after all if you are a devoted fan of watching old television then converting to a 16:9 tv is going to be a waste of time as you are only going to be using 2/3 of your screen. Well there are plenty of old films that are widescreen going back to the 1950s at least which probably appeal as well as old TV! And there is all the current TV which leaves black bars atop and below the picture on a 4:3 |
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Post by William Martin on Jul 20, 2005 15:03:13 GMT
just out of interest, when was the first widescreen broadcast in the uk and what was it?
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Post by guest on Jul 20, 2005 16:53:42 GMT
i think some German channels were testing with pal plus in the early nineties
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Post by pete on Jul 20, 2005 22:51:05 GMT
what is the point in the black bars these days, after all people are going widescreen anyway.
the Dr Who 2005 series on DVD with black bars top and bottom, whats that all about, after it want like that on TV in the first place.
muckabout
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Post by Matthew North on Jul 28, 2005 16:36:41 GMT
I think Brookside was the first UK programme made in WS even if it wasnt Tx in the format.
Matt
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Post by Gareth R on Jul 30, 2005 13:12:01 GMT
Garet I know this is off topic,but can anyone explain why the ITN/ITV News and the regional news are still in 4:3 Acadamy ratio? Apart from budgetary issues, I would imagine the fact that most international newsgathering is still 4:3 plays a part. Why go 16:9 when most of the reports you will be showing are natively 4:3? |
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