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Originally Posted by towny
There has been a known issue which causes the STB to send the wrong aspect ratio command to your TV, which can result in you watching a 'zoomed' 4:3 letterbox picture rather than a true 16:9 picture. Once the error arises on your STB, it remains there until you reboot, or if you use Settings to set to 4:3 and then straight back to 16:9.
However what you're seeing on Sky One is, AFAIK, not an error with the STB but down to Sky deciding for whatever reason to continue to broadcast their ad-breaks in 4:3. Channel 5 often does this as well. You end up seeing a lot of ads as 4:3 letterbox because they are all recorded in 16:9 these days and many are not made available for broadcast in a 4:3 version.
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Spot on Towny.
My widescreen TV does not have auto aspect-ratio switching so if you're watching, say Jake 2.0 or 24 on Sky1 and the TV is set up for "Anamorphic" then you will see the correct aspect ratio, using the tv's full resolution, but when the adverts happen (irrespective of the ratio) what is broadcast is not "Anamorphic"
Conversely, if you're watching a Grand-Prix (shot in 4:3) this is broadcast "Unanamorphically", but when the ads arrive, these are broadcast "Anamorphically".
Thre is no doubt in my mind that this is not a bug but just the way that NTL get their feeds from the different channels.
One day, everything, no matter what way they are shot, will be broadcast "Anamorphically" - Look at Scuzz for an example of this.