Soooo, do you have a widescreen TV? Do you want one? What's your opinion on everything going from slightly more square to slightly more rectangular?
Never had one, though probably should get one. Most shows have the edges cut off them on my old TV now....
I hate the way when they show clips from 4:3 telly on a widescreen broadcast they chop the top and bottom off instead of showing it pillarboxed (with vertical black bars) I used to hate having the edges of a widescreen film chopped off, now I hate having the top and bottom of an Academy frame left out! I've even seen programmes like Fawlty Towers from the 70s being shown on the BBC cropped to 14:9 to fill up a widescreen frame! Hideous!
Widescreen is now old fashioned. It was out in the early nineties. Most people have one. The only difference is the shape of screen. They say that it fits everything in but I still get BBC News banner sloping off the screen.
I hate widescreen!!!! I like my shows,etc FULL SCREEN!!!! (On a CRT televison which produces a BETTER picture (In my opinion))
When I'm sitting looking at a square or recatangle with light and pictures on it, I find that the size of the square or rectangle is imperative to my wellbeing and enjoyment of this activity. A slightly bigger one than before is an absolute must.
I love the shape of 16:9. Pictures just look nicer and more well proportioned and frankly, just so much more picturey. Um
How did you feel about widescreen 3 years ago? You do not see more pitch, btw. It is fitting a square image into a rectangular screen.
Ok, as far as I am aware, when I change the aspect ratio on my TV It is changing the ratio of the image not the size. Yes, when the image is being converted to a particular aspect ratio the image can be cut. But, the way programmes are filmed now - including football -the image is always the same and so when the image is transmitted the same aspect ratio is being sent to all recievers...this means unless my TV decides to crop my image to compensate for the change in ratio, I am not losing any image. My TV decides not to. Most TVs are trying to fit the same image into different spaces. You could get really technical about it, and say thet I am wrong...but generally speaking I think I am right. e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=possDxrrj7M"]YouTube - Doctor Who Proms TV 2010 - I Am The Doctor (2)
Most digital SD services are transmitted as anamorphic (squeezed) images which 16:9 TVs then stretch out to the correct aspect ratio, if correctly set up. Some digital receivers can be set to show a cropped version of the widescreen image for old 4:3 screens so you'd lose the sides of the picture, or you can show the whole widescreen image in a letterbox. Some channels still transmit 4:3 images if they show a lot of old programmes like the history channels, but more often they are letterboxed to something like 14:9, transmitted as a 4:3 image. Analogue terrestrial TV used to transmit like this too, with a small amount of the image cropped from the sides, but I haven't watched it for ages... Widescreen TVs will have a variety of display options to cope with all the different types of image being broadcast, unfortunately many people don't understand the basics so end up watching short fat people and think they're watching widescreen, or watch widescreen images on a 4:3 screen all squeezed up so everyone's tall and thin, or lose 20% of the picture by having the sides cropped off. All new content made in Europe for the last ten years or so has been native 16:9 which is true widescreen, transmitted anamorphically and stretched by the receiving TV. The only way to watch this properly is unsqueezed on a 16:9 tv or letterboxed on a 4:3 tv. As for something like football, the whole idea of seeing more of the pitch in widescreen is a bit irrelevant because it depends on camera angles, but in a native 16:9 image, I suppose you could be closer to the player but see more of the surrounding pitch each side, which is probably what youd want if you like watching football...
Yup...... Its quite disgusting how the cable company tells you YOU NEED A SPECIAL BOX/TV TO VIEW HD STUFF!! No you dont,if you wanna view it in SD you do not!! (THAT IS IF THEY DIDNT BLOCK THIER SD BOXS FROM GETTING THE HD FEEDS (Its all a scam to make $$$ getting people to upgrade to HD boxs when they dont really need to if they wanna watch said feeds in SD))
