TG4 Silly pluckers..

mike65

Anyone catch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on TG4 tonight? They showed it in the wrong ratio!

Dopes!

Mike.

Round Cable

Yes just finished watching it, it looked like 16:9.

mike65

My tele has a switchable ratio, when I went to 16:9 it was then "corrected" so the print was a full widescreen 2.35:1 ratio I think.

Mike.

spockety

What, did it appear stretched vertically on a 4:3 TV or something?

I put it on briefly (NTL Digital, 16:9 widescreen TV) and it had black bars top and bottom... Didn't know TG4 could even output anything other than 4:3!?

bbbbb

I've seen E4 doing this occasionally also, and MTV seemed to be "stuck" on the wrong setting for an entire weekend. I also have a switchable TV, but still find it annoying. The BBC seem to be going for the 14:9 ratio alot, half way between 16:9 and 4:3. The black lines at the top of a 4:3 TV are not so noticable.

spockety

From what I could see, BBC seem to go for 14:9 on analogue, and a 16:9 on digital. Or am I imagining things?

Round Cable

spockety wrote:

I put it on briefly (NTL Digital, 16:9 widescreen TV) and it had black bars top and bottom... Didn't know TG4 could even output anything other than 4:3!?

TG4 show a lot of Homemade programmes in Widescreen, also Nip/Tuck is shown in 16:9, no doubt it would be 14:9 or 4:3 if shown on RTE. About the 14:9/16:9 BBC, one is on analouge and the other is digital.

mike65

spockety wrote:

What, did it appear stretched vertically on a 4:3 TV or something?

I put it on briefly (NTL Digital, 16:9 widescreen TV) and it had black bars top and bottom... Didn't know TG4 could even output anything other than 4:3!?

TG4 were showing it 16:9 ratio but it was still wrong, everything was tall and thin so I then put my tv at 16:9 ratio and that compensated for the wrong ratio. Which is why it must have been full widescren print. The black bars on my tv were 1/3 top and 1/3 bottom of screen which is correct when showing 2.35:1 ratio image.

Mike.

SRB

They have a habit of doing this with movies, the picture will appear "tall and thin" on a 4:3 telly, if watching on analogue on a widescreen set, set to 16:9, it will be widescreen. I used to think it was accidental, but it happens so often I'm not so sure.

John R

mike65 wrote:

TG4 were showing it 16:9 ratio but it was still wrong, everything was tall and thin so I then put my tv at 16:9 ratio and that compensated for the wrong ratio. Which is why it must have been full widescren print. The black bars on my tv were 1/3 top and 1/3 bottom of screen which is correct when showing 2.35:1 ratio image.

Mike.

There was a film on RTE earlier this week shown like that also, can't remember what film but it was on late at night.

culabula

TG4 home-rpoduced programmes, such as my own, are all shot in 16:9. It's only when they get aired, on Sky, that the silly restrictions kick in and they are shown in 4:3.

SRB

You can't blame SKY, it's nothing to do with them ! There's nothing other than cost to stop TG4 doing the same as the BBC and ITV - Widescreen on Digital and 14:9 on Analogue. If you show 16:9 programmes in 16:9 on Analogue they would look fine on a 16:9 set in widescreen mode, but tall and thin on a 4:3 set, which most analogue viewer still have.

Elmo

Generally I find that most of the TV stations on NTL analogue are out of ratio. IMO. E4 and MTV the most.

Capt'n Midnight

For a few dollars more
is on now and it's over 2:1 on screen
(aerial from Three Rock)

mike65

Same here on cable. So they got that right, but that means they're showing the trilogy in the wrong order!

Doh!

Mike.

Capt'n Midnight

mike65 wrote:

Same here on cable. So they got that right, but that means they're showing the trilogy in the wrong order!

Doh!

Mike.

Yeah, Good/Bad/Ugly is first then A fistful and then for a few more. - For once upon a time in the west, except for Clint Eastwood's contract with the studio, they could have had those three getting gunned down at the start.

Do you think we could ask them to show some of the Kirasawa films as "westerns" ??