richms: At least the NZ music vids dont look like they have been ripped off youtube and then had black borders added on all 4 sides like so much of the US sourced stuff.

Deev8: Of course no TV company can please all of the people all of the time, but from my point of view Mediaworks already have one channel that I rarely watch (C4), one channel that's useful about once per month (TV3 Plus1) and now they are introducing another that I may never watch.

richms: Would it kill them to scale it to fullscreen? Sucks having a 32" picture on a 42" screen.

richms: Something is makeing it wider than 4:3 stuff is so its not like the old 4:3 shows they play which are full height and only as wide as 4:3 - most vids go to about half way between the 4:3 size and the side of the frame.

IMO is is inexcusable to transmit something that doesnt touch the 16:9 output size one one dimension. I am not asking them to crop off picture content to make it 16:9, just show it as large as possible.

cassadee:

richms: Something is makeing it wider than 4:3 stuff is so its not like the old 4:3 shows they play which are full height and only as wide as 4:3 - most vids go to about half way between the 4:3 size and the side of the frame.

IMO is is inexcusable to transmit something that doesnt touch the 16:9 output size one one dimension. I am not asking them to crop off picture content to make it 16:9, just show it as large as possible.

when they crop it wouldint remove any of the video its would just make video 720x576 16:9 like the music show in au called rage crop there videos

this video is 4.3 [IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/24gvsl1.jpg[/IMG]

some of there 4.3 video are little wider then 4.3 this is because they dont crop and the encoader add boarder streching video a little but depending on the tape source or source of video they used it may not be streched at all as you can see in my pic

btw sd channles on freeview dont broudcast in 16:9 there aspect is 20:11 i dont know why this is

• Originally was 16:9


• Was converted to 4:3 Letterbox and was then transmitted as 16:9

ZollyMonsta:

cassadee:

richms: Something is makeing it wider than 4:3 stuff is so its not like the old 4:3 shows they play which are full height and only as wide as 4:3 - most vids go to about half way between the 4:3 size and the side of the frame.

IMO is is inexcusable to transmit something that doesnt touch the 16:9 output size one one dimension. I am not asking them to crop off picture content to make it 16:9, just show it as large as possible.

when they crop it wouldint remove any of the video its would just make video 720x576 16:9 like the music show in au called rage crop there videos

this video is 4.3 [IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/24gvsl1.jpg[/IMG]

some of there 4.3 video are little wider then 4.3 this is because they dont crop and the encoader add boarder streching video a little but depending on the tape source or source of video they used it may not be streched at all as you can see in my pic

btw sd channles on freeview dont broudcast in 16:9 there aspect is 20:11 i dont know why this is

That looks like a music video that:

• Originally was 16:9




• Was converted to 4:3 Letterbox and was then transmitted as 16:9

Kinda like the 'postage stamp affect' for 4:3 viewers, but in this sense affects 16:9 viewers.

richms: Well it sucks. I see less black by about 10% when watching in media center, I dont know what it does with overscan because I have no control over it, the STB shows less but its going to a wide CRT which has massive overscan issues.

If the stuff really is from a tape then its inexcusable how crap some of it looks.

This is what I was just seeing

There is no way that is from 4:3 just pillarboxed, there has been some cropping, just not enough of it.

and Mmmm, crap deinterlacing, thanks for the interlaced content C4....

edit - forum messing with the aspect, right click and view and its fine.

richms: 4:3 stuff is noway near as close to the left and right edges... Just deleted family guy off here so cant go back and cap it, but its normally about halfway between the edge of the BEP video and the C4 logo on the left.