Are we ever going to see Widescreen from VM?

[evil Homer]

Says it all really... Its now May 2008, in the time of digital television and we're still watching programmes filmed in widescreen 16:9/16:10 compressed into a 4:3 window on our 32"+ LCD/Plasma/CRT tv's.

Yes can understand older programmes that are shown on UK TV and a few others... but Virgin 1 showing newer programmes in 4:3....

I refuse to use the Widescreen stretch option on my V+ box as it looks awful...

Has anyone heard anything recently about VM finally getting Widescreen in place properly?

 

[nialli]

Yes. A friend of mine who works at VM TV says it's imminent. They've had to do work on the backend content database but it's pretty much ready to roll.

 

[BikeNutt]

Yes. A friend of mine who works at VM TV says it's imminent. They've had to do work on the backend content database but it's pretty much ready to roll.

Please keep us posted (I'm sure you will anyway on your excellent blog!)

Just my luck Virgin1 will go 16:9 after the current season of The Unit finishes

 

[Johnlouis]

Yes. A friend of mine who works at VM TV says it's imminent. They've had to do work on the backend content database but it's pretty much ready to roll.

That's really good news! Just posted a thread about that today, thinking I had my TV set up incorrectly. Can't understand why they've taken so long to do it though!

 

[nialli]

Latest: Virgin channels (inc. Living and Virgin1) going widescreen June 3rd. Not sure if this will affect On Demand content.

 

[markymark34]

Latest: Virgin channels (inc. Living and Virgin1) going widescreen June 3rd. Not sure if this will affect On Demand content.

Amazing