what do you mean by incorrect aspect tagging? Do you mean that it is forced 16:9 letterboxing as compared with 4:3 or 14:9 for other UHF channels?
The analog one is flagged as 4:3 when it is letterboxed content, so any widescreen TV will instead of zooming it to full screen, show it in letterbox and pillarbox, and one one of my TVs it disables the zoom control when it gets WSS on the signal so all the horseraces look like a music video on C4 with black all around it on analog. The digital is working fine tho.
Juice manage to send a FHA analog signal out so I dont know why the other channels are not able to do that.
As far as I Know Sky manage the Trackside analogue output and all they do is pass the 16:9 content into an Aspect Ratio Converter and force UHF (analogue) customers to watch in 16:9 letterboxing. there are no other signalling/flagging that exists apart from teletext passed in this signal.I don't think there is any such thing as flagging for aspect ratios..except maybe TV's that detect amounts of black around a picture..but i'm open to be proved wrong! ;>)
No, there is definatly WSS present in it, so whatever they are using to make the letterbox for analog is tagging it wrong. IMO they should have it as full height since virtually every tv sold in the last decade is widescreen. Letterboxing just means that people with old square screens have one less reason to replace it.
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