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Originally Posted by deewee
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!!
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I'm certain the narrowness is just perception. If you want to check it out, go to your viewing options and select 4:3 pan and scan on the stb.
The BBC do this black bar stuff all the time with the 4:3 international feeds they get on grandstand. The superbikes and motogp are always presented in this way. I think there are standards that mean they cant switch aspect ratios during the same program so just have to pad out the sides of the picture or (as on CBBC, stretch it), although I have heard a different explanation that the BBC's new editing suites for news, sports and childrens programmes are incapable of doing this anyway but I haven't seen any evidence to back that up.