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Why when i watch euro2004 game on cable to i get two thick black stripes up the sides of my picture. Yet when i watch it on terrestrial its fine?

Im watching it in 16:9

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Thats the way the Beeb (not watched ITV) are sending it out, its a 4:3 pic in a 16:9 frame. thats the way the host countries TV company will be providing it.

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Bacause the pictures from Portugal are not in widescreen.

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IF you watch on EuroSport (when they have the game on) then they have it in full screen (although it might be a cut top and bottom job). And you need to put up with their commentators (beats ITV's though!)

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BBC and ITV are the same. But as i said, its fine on terrestrial but not on NTL. So seems to me NTL are screwing it up?

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It's the same on Sky, black bars on each side as it should be to maintain the correct aspect ratio.

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Terrestrial Digital or analogue? Analogue is only ever 4:3.
The pictures you have on cable are from Terrestrial Digital.

Still easier to blame everything on ntl. :monkey:

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terrestrail analogue fills the screen but NTL digital doesnt.

blame it on NTL???? So your telling me that it couldnt be processed to fill a screen correctly?

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Widescreen or 4:3 TV ?

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It's not NTL. The BBC are broadcasting 16:9 (with pillarboxing during matches) on all digital platforms. This is because all their studio stuff and graphics are 16:9, and they don't like to broadcast anything 4:3 these days at all.

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widescreen

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Mine is the same, but it is just my TV stretching the picture on terrestial because I have 16.9 set as default. If you switch your TV to "auto" you will see exactly what is being transmitted, nowt to do with Ntl.

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hmmm is that how the widescreen TV decides what is the best size to use? I seen it on Digital where it changes size part way through a program, so wasnt sure if it was something in the signal that decided the screen size.

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Then you are using your TV incorrectly. BBC and ITV analogue broadcasts are 4:3. You are horizontally stretching and hence distorting the pictures to fit.
Your ntl box is sending the picture it recieves from the BBC, which is a picture with black bars down either side.

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mine is on auto