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| From | Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.tech.broadcast |
| Subject | Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? |
| Date | 2026-09-18 22:50 +0100 |
| Organization | https://www.Brian-Gregory.me.uk/ |
| Message-ID | <nh5q1mFil9cU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <117n6q8$3jr1s$1@dont-email.me> <118702e$u449$1@dont-email.me> <ngon0tFg43nU1@mid.individual.net> <1187l6p$14sf8$1@dont-email.me> |
On 14/09/2026 03:12, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > Yes, the relevant prog.s (e. g. vintage Mastermind), when I looked on my > HD set (when they were being broadcast on an HD channel as well as an SD > one), were correctly pillarboxed. It's just when viewed on my SD set (on > an SD channel, obviously), or the HD set on an SD channel, they have > started to appear full-screen, and thus distorted (squashed/stretched). I think maybe it's just being done because some people (idiots?) like it better that way. "I paid a fortune for this huge screen, why aren't you using all of it?" Much in the same way that some people will stretch a photo to fill a gap left for it on a website even if it means the photo gets horribly stretched or squashed. -- Brian Gregory (in England).
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Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-07 21:28 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-09-13 21:11 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-13 22:39 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-09-13 23:39 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-14 03:12 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-09-18 22:50 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-19 00:36 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-09-18 22:57 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-19 00:38 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-09-19 05:03 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-19 22:01 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-09-14 09:55 +0000
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-09-14 14:37 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-14 19:15 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? wolfgang s <see@sig.nature> - 2026-09-18 09:19 +0000
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-09-18 13:09 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-18 22:13 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-09-18 22:42 +0100
Re: Has the way the 4:3 flag is broadcast been changed? wolfgang s <see@sig.nature> - 2026-09-20 19:03 +0000
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