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Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar
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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I've read most of the comments in this thread, but none fully address the problem as I SEE IT.
Ok it is a 4:3 picture transmitted by the host country TV company, in a 16:9 frame broadcast by BBC/ITV in digital format - hence the black bars. But to my eyes this 4:3 picture LOOKS like a 16:9 picture compressed into a 4:3 frame because all the players tend to look like matchstick men, and the perspective seems wrong. I'm sure if it was possible to stretch the 4:3 picture back to 16:9 format everything would look 'normal' again!!
Has anyone else noticed this?
I may be wrong, perhaps I've been watching s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d pictures on my panasonic TV for too long. (panasonic call it justified - where the left and right edges of a 4:3 picture are distorted to fill the 16:9 widescreen)
On a second point can anyone explain why the left and right blank areas on football matches from BBC are black, but the same areas on ITV/ITV2 seem to have a golden glow? (NO its NOT a problem with my TV)