Maybe it's just me, but I get slightly annoyed when a TV show that's been made in widescreen includes older clips that could only be 4:3 and they are cropped and zoomed to fit 16:9.
There was a lot of this in the David Attenborough thing last night where they showed his old broadcasts.
My objections are:
1. By zooming the picture it gets grainy
2. Peoples' heads get chopped
3. Those poor people with 4:3 sets get it cropped twice and probably only see half the original picture
I've seen on a lot of sports broadcasts they add patterned bands to the sides of a 4:3 picture. Those with a 4:3 set won't see them anyway.
No doubt the broadcasters will say that viewers get upset if their whole screen is not used. "I didn't pay all this money for parts of my screen to be empty"
So is it just me or should we start a petition?
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Steve
www.bagofspoons.net
There was a lot of this in the David Attenborough thing last night where they showed his old broadcasts.
My objections are:
1. By zooming the picture it gets grainy
2. Peoples' heads get chopped
3. Those poor people with 4:3 sets get it cropped twice and probably only see half the original picture
I've seen on a lot of sports broadcasts they add patterned bands to the sides of a 4:3 picture. Those with a 4:3 set won't see them anyway.
No doubt the broadcasters will say that viewers get upset if their whole screen is not used. "I didn't pay all this money for parts of my screen to be empty"
So is it just me or should we start a petition?
--
Steve
www.bagofspoons.net