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Sky News Ireland bulletins not in widescreen!

  • 31-10-2005 10:30am
    #1
    Widescreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭


    As my name suggests this obviously is a problem to me. Why once again is Ireland left behind.... first the Sky Gnome ,now this. Why are the Ireland bulletins not in authentic w/s!!!:D


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  • #2
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    I could have sworn it was in widescreen. I'll have to have a look again tonight.


  • #3
    DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    No, you were right, Kahless. I saw it in widescreen too. hmm.


  • #4
    maisflocke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭maisflocke


    Widescreen wrote:
    As my name suggests this obviously is a problem to me. Why once again is Ireland left behind.... first the Sky Gnome ,now this. Why are the Ireland bulletins not in authentic w/s!!!:D

    Maybe you should change your username to "System set up wrong"... Sky News IRL WS available on both my dodgybox, and Topfield D-Sat receiver.....

    ;)


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Check that both TV and Sky box set to 16:9, or TV set to Auto.

    My 4:3 set does true WS, but only switches correctly if Sat box set to 16:9, SCART ON and SCART cable not loose. Soemtimes the SCART cable is jogged slightly loose


  • #6
    MacLondon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭MacLondon


    I think people are misinterpreting the thread title.

    He's not asking about the Sky News Ireland channel in general, but about the half-hour Irish news bulletins on the channel.

    I don't know if he is correct, but I presume he is. Sky News had to move to a new studio to incorporate widescreen, but I presume that didn't affect the Irish news studio


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  • #7
    DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    I understood the title, and Sky News Ireland at 6:30 and 10pm certainly is in widescreen.

    If he is looking at it through Active later in the evening, its not in widescreen, but then, none of the 8 screens are.


  • #8
    Dr. Nick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,434 ✭✭✭Dr. Nick


    erm...........Sky News Ireland has never been in Widescreen for me, rarely look at it, so never bothered asking!


  • #9
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Sky News Ireland bulletins are definately in w/s

    only thing not is the ad breaks and Sky News Active


  • #10
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    I'm looking at it right now and it is in widescreen.


  • #11
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭radiospan


    The problem is that the 16:9 switching is broken on Sky News Ireland.

    My Sony TV stays in Smart mode when I change to Sky News Ireland, where it usually changes to 16:9 mode for all other widescreen programs.

    Even stranger, my TV changes to 16:9 as soon as I switch from Sky News Ireland. Even if I'm moving to a 4:3 channel. It changes back to Smart then after a few seconds.


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  • #12
    Widescreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Widescreen


    Thanks PlazzT . I have been away since I initiated this thread and apart from the smarta**e comments by Maisflocke(:eek: ) I read the findings with interest. Totally agree its in w/s ,just the scart switch isn't working which threw me at the time..... Still why the hell can't they fix it ??!! Any news on the old gnome yet??:)


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