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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 22:57 +0100 |
| Organization | https://www.Brian-Gregory.me.uk/ |
| Message-ID | <nh5qdqFinbjU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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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). > Until sometime in the last month or so, that set displayed such material > pillarboxed automatically (though for some reason I had to turn > subtitles off for that to work). Now it doesn't; I can only assume that > the broadcasters - who are clearly broadcasting the material full-width > - have stopped setting the flag. Have you ever seen any of the Indian news channels on satellite? They are full of feeds from events or remote studios at the wrong aspect ratio? I suspect the BBC is almost unique among the worlds broadcasters in really wanting to do everything correctly and in the highest possible quality. -- 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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