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SciFi Channel not widescreen

  • 26-11-2009 09:51PM
    #1
    InisMor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I did some testing and only the ad breaks on the SciFi Channel transmit in widescreen.

    anybody know why this be so?

    cheers


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  • #2
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,541 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    InisMor wrote: »
    Hi,

    I did some testing and only the ad breaks on the SciFi Channel transmit in widescreen.

    anybody know why this be so?

    cheers
    Because the original material isn't available (to SciFi channel) in widescreen would be my guess. It's the same on lots of the other non mainstream channels.


  • #3
    Pat Gleeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Pat Gleeson


    Alun wrote: »
    Because the original material isn't available (to SciFi channel) in widescreen would be my guess. It's the same on lots of the other non mainstream channels.

    It is widescreen on Sky for the most part. All programmes that are native HD are simulcast in widescreen on the SD channel. For sure, some programmes which would be normally considered widescreen are not available to SciFi in that format: e.g. Medium (SciFi don't have widescreen prints of this and a few others for some reason).


  • #4
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    InisMor wrote: »
    anybody know why this be so?

    Sci Fi choose to do so.


  • #5
    InisMor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭InisMor


    I did a bit more checking.

    WAREHOUSE 13 seems to have transmitted all its episodes in widescreen.
    Other series seem to have alternated between episodes.


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