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Sky One in widescreen from 17th October

  • 01-08-2002 9:11pm
    #1
    carrolls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭


    An insider at Sky has announced that Sky One will finally start transmissions in 16:9 format from 17th October.


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  • #2
    seca2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭seca2


    Maybe you could ask your insider what the story is with UTV,RTE etc for north and south


  • #3
    carrolls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭carrolls


    Maybe you could ask your insider
    Do I detect a level of cynicism/sarcism in your tone seca2?


  • #4
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    "Just" in widescreen? Or will there still be a 14:3 option?
    (not that 16:9 is too bad if you don't have a widescreen set)

    (bah - meant 4:3 before someone starts getting sarcastic)


  • #5
    carrolls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭carrolls


    Or will there still be a 14:3 option
    I think its the same format that the BBC broadcast.


  • #6
    Charles Slane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭Charles Slane


    Hi carrolls,

    Sounds great. Looking forward to seeing Angel in widescreen this year.

    Hopefully they've seen sense from their previous "we'll only go widscreen when the majority of viewers have widescreen sets" stance.

    There are plenty of people out there who don't mind watching widescreen broadcasts on a fairly large 4.3 screen.


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  • #7
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    about time ;)


  • #8
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Widescreen should have been limited to a new HDTV system.
    Generally it means poorer pictures as broadcasters crop and resample 4:3 material and also it is anamorphic -- same amount of information as 4:3 TV, but just stretched wider, therfore on a 36" widescreen (gives same hieght roughly as 22" 4:3 TV) which is a real minimum for the format to make sense (and not look like a barbie house TV picture) the picture is very blurry horizontally.

    A good 29" 4:3 TV that has built in WS switching actually gives almost same size picture in 16:9 mode as a 28" WS TV, and obviously nearly twice the size of 4:3 picture as the same signal on a 16:9 TV.

    Despite Argos advert. WS TV isn't even cinema format anyway.

    Because of problems with dynamic switching you even end up with 4:3 material "letterboxed" vertically in a 16:9 anamorphic picture which gives both 16:9 and 4:3 viewers a black border, or if zoomed to fill screen (either by Digibox 4:3 re-sampling or by TV set) a very degraded (lacking in resolution) picture.

    Some cinema material (but not all) is better in WS cos 4:3 chops off too much, but for most of TV 4:3 is better.

    WS was only invented by cinema because of rise of TV viewing.


  • #9
    sonic10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭sonic10


    i like to sky one my favorite program is relic hunter


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