UPC showing Forrest Gump in wrong ratio on analogue

mike65

Anyone else spot this? You'd have been teed off if you only had analogue service. The ads were correct however.

Mike

slx

Which cable network are you on ? They've different analogue headends in every area, so it's not likely to be a general issue across the entire UPC cable network.

For example, on the 4 remaining analogue channels in Cork the ratio is all over the place. It's a bad quality digital sourced feed fed back in as PAL. It's almost unwatchable

mike65

Sorry, Waterford.

Mike

zilog_jones

BBC1 and Sky One have been in permanent 16:9 on analogue cable in Limerick for at least a year now. Quite annoying when the only TVs I use analogue cable on aren't widescreen and don't have a 16:9 mode

Infoanon

Happens a lot on UPC digital service in Dublin with films and various programmes - eg prime time in the wrong ratio

I heard that RTE though had a direct link to UPC network and could alter this themselves ???

zilog_jones

With digital TV (assuming the source is digital), the broadcasters are the ones who set the 4:3/16:9 signalling. They do make mistakes sometimes. However, I guess it's possible this signalling could get broken down the line too - TV3 seems to be permanently in 16:9 and TG4 is permanently 4:3 on cable in Limerick apparently.

mike65

The whole system is in chasis!

Mike

highdef

It was RTE who appeared to have screwed up as I was watching it on digital and it was in 4:3. UPC do not change the aspect ratio of the digital feeds from RTE so UPC was not to blame, in this instance.