Strange black bar on local BBC1 progs

Originally Posted by bob_builder

Ah, that is exactly what I have seen occasionally on BBC News 24 - so that explains that

This issue also affects the older editions of your own series on Cebeebies of course ...

[SMHarman]

Seems the US are hanging onto 4:3 as long as they can. Mrs H recently came back with some DVD's that proudly proclaim FULL SCREEN VERSION, in the same way that most here proudly proclaim WIDESCREEN VERSION. Whats that about? Proclaiming the movie has been reformatted...

Needless to say, she though she had bought the W/S version and they were promptly dispatched back to the US for a refund.

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Seems the US are hanging onto 4:3 as long as they can. Mrs H recently came back with some DVD's that proudly proclaim FULL SCREEN VERSION, in the same way that most here proudly proclaim WIDESCREEN VERSION. Whats that about? Proclaiming the movie has been reformatted...

Needless to say, she though she had bought the W/S version and they were promptly dispatched back to the US for a refund.

The US has elected to adopt Hi-definition TV at the same time as it switches to widescreen (and presumably digitial) transmission. I would have thought that the additional costs associated with this will generally slow down take-up of widescreen TV over there. I'm quite jealous of their HD-TV tho, Jerrek has posted screenshots in the forum in the past and it looks great.

The Government offered UK broadcasters the chance to go HD at the same time as the move to digital, but no-one was keen due to the huge investment required in new hardware. I guess we may have to wait another 5 years before we get it in our homes.