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Originally Posted by Mal
It happens with me, on the right side, but only on BBC news programmes, (and even then it's only for certain reports in the bulletin) nothing else. It doesn't happen on any other BBC programme or any other channel  |
I think that's a different issue again. Sometimes BBC news crews (especially when reporting from the USA) seem to be using old 4:3 cameras to record their reports. These are 'zoomed in' before broadcast to eliminate the black bars you would normally expect to see down the left and right of the picture on a 16:9 TV. It appears for whatever reason that they don't
quite zoom in far enough though. I always get a thin black bar down the right of my picture in these circumstances.
If you have young children you might have spotted a similar effect on the Cbeebies channel. That station's entire output is in 16:9, even for older repeats like Teletubbies (all recorded in 4:3), so the picture is zoomed to almost fill the screen. It means you can't read the closing credits, which zip along the bottom of the picture, but my 19-month-old has never found this to be a problem.
