DOGless TV3 During Movies

Mossy Monk

is this a new thing. Stigmata is on now with no DOG, during the ad break it turned itself back on. if this is not a mistake, take note RTÉ

all thats needed now is TV3 to do the widescreen

Round Cable

Mossy Monk wrote:

is this a new thing. Stigmata is on now with no DOG, during the ad break it turned itself back on. if this is not a mistake, take note RTÉ

all thats needed now is TV3 to do the widescreen

Probabally a mistake, and on the note of widescrren, it was supposed to be mid-2005, here's an reply from TV3 about widescreen broadcasting:

"We should be broadcasting in widescreen later in the year."

It's like tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, so hopefully tomorrow will eventually come.

Mossy Monk

it was a mistake as the 3 returned for the 2nd half of the movie

Marcopolo85

Mossy Monk wrote:

it was a mistake as the 3 returned for the 2nd half of the movie

Why do RTE continue to broadcast in 14:9? A widescreen TV on auto ends up with two black bars down the side because of this. Can they not use 16:9 like the rest of Europe?

Round Cable

RTÉ broadcast in 16:9 on Sky, with a crappy comprimise 14:9 on analogue, there really isn't much they can do.

byte

I hate 14:9, as it seems to look crap on both widescreen and 4:3 TV's.

Elmo

I still don't understand why you cann't make your TV set to widescreen all of the time regardless of the broadcaster.

Why does it change back? Thank god I don't have a widescreen TV at the moment.

Macy

Elmo wrote:

I still don't understand why you cann't make your TV set to widescreen all of the time regardless of the broadcaster.

Why does it change back? Thank god I don't have a widescreen TV at the moment.

Doesn't it depend on the TV? I can set my Sony Wega...

Mossy Monk

Elmo wrote:

I still don't understand why you cann't make your TV set to widescreen all of the time regardless of the broadcaster.

but you can, on my tv anyway

Marcopolo85

Elmo wrote:

I still don't understand why you cann't make your TV set to widescreen all of the time regardless of the broadcaster.

Why does it change back? Thank god I don't have a widescreen TV at the moment.

You can set it manually, but it's abit of a bore. Every channel, bar RTE, on analogue broadcasts in 16:9. The auto function is very handy, with Channel Four being the quickest for auto detection (2 seconds). :eek:

Mossy Monk

Marcopolo85 wrote:

Every channel, bar RTE, on analogue broadcasts in 16:9

TV3, TG4, BBC1, BBC2, ITV, C4. none of these broadcast in 16:9 on analogue

14:9 however is a different story

Telefís

And as said before, not 14:9 either, but 14:9 letterbox via a 4:3 signal.

I simply cannot understand people's abhorrence of watching 4:3 on a widescreen set - what's the problem? So what if there's black bars at the side, you're only watching the image! Who cares about the bars, can you not mentally black them out?

Do you look at the enitre set including guady silver frame when watching so as a result you find 4:3 not filling the srceen offensive to your set's aesthetic?!
It's really just ridiculous. And broadcasters have this stupid notion too, so now when making programmes predominantly made up of archive footage, they still make the prog in 16:9 cropping every single second of the old 4:3 footage.
It is a disgrace.

Television audiences ought to grow up about 4:3 - it's a lovely format. 16:9 was only introduced by Hollywood to keep people going to cinemas as the films on television would be cropped if they started shooting in widescreen. Up to that point most films were roughly square!
One of the greatest and famous filmmkers of all time Eisenstein also advocated the square screen, saying it offered greater compositional possiblities!

If footage is 4:3 it ought to be broadcast as such. Likewise with 16:9.
But the idea that 16:9 is better than 4:3 is utter nonsense in my opinion - they are at least as good as each other, each having their own virtues and faults.

People only like 16:9 because the sets are marginally bigger, not because of compositional issues. The hatred of 4:3 is only building now too because of how small it looks on 16:9 sets.
Well what if we always had 16:9 and we were moving to 4:3 - the 16:9 image would be smaller than usual on the shiny new 4:3 sets! - and there'd be horror stories galore about 16:9!
It's the transition that's fueling the negative myths surrounding 4:3 and is unfair.

For framing the human form, the fundamental televison subject, 4:3 I believe is far far superior.

Elmo

Every channel, bar RTE, on analogue broadcasts in 16:9.

What about Terrestrially?

Is RTE, TV3 and TG4 broadcasting in Widescreen Terrestrially?

Mossy Monk

no channel is broadcasting in widescreen on terrestrial