Censorship :-( Wrote:What’s going on with the BS on Freeview? Starting three nights ago, the picture is distorted – stretched horizontally, as though it is shot in 4:3, stretched to 16:9, then broadcast as 4:3, meaning that it cannot be corrected by the viewer, resulting in an unmatchable channel.

Please make it stop

Moderation Station Wrote:Who the heck is that? If it's someone from 'pop culture' i assure you i don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland full of inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.

Censorship :-( Wrote:

Censorship :-( Wrote:What’s going on with the BS on Freeview? Starting three nights ago, the picture is distorted – stretched horizontally, as though it is shot in 4:3, stretched to 16:9, then broadcast as 4:3, meaning that it cannot be corrected by the viewer, resulting in an unmatchable channel.

Please make it stop

And while you're correcting this broadcast abomination, please also end the censorship on Freeview. If I can be presumptuous enough to speak for ‘Freeviewers’ in general, we would very much like full, $ky strength BS, not the tame, granny friendly version that you are currently inflicting upon us.

shandyman Wrote:its shot in 16:9, broadcasted in 16:9 but its still sending a signal that its actually in 4:3 which is why you're missing the bits off the sides (like missing one of the 2 girls in the box in the corner etc. thats why i've been saying you just have to mess with the settings on the freeview box like i did.

Censorship :-( Wrote:No, that's not the explanation - the picture is distorted, not only missing bits off the sides of the picture - it is not correctable by the viewer. I can only assume that those who claim to have corrected it either cannot see the distortion/don't mind it, or, strangely, by setting the TV & STB incorrectly, they have 'corrected' the faulty broadcast, two wrongs making a right, though I still can't see that this is possible.

As I have said before, if your explanation was correct, you would not be missing the sides of the picture; what would be seen, is the the full 16:9 picture compressed horizontally in the 4:3 frame, which could be corrected by manually switching to 16:9.

Censorship :-( Wrote:BTW, is anything actually shot 14:9? I thought that this was a made-up aspect to 'fudge' 4:3 broadcasts on a widescreen TV, so that there is less ‘black’ at the sides of the screen, for those strange individuals who would rather watch an inaccurate image (stretched, reduced resolution etc.) than have a part of their screen not displaying picture – ‘I paid for a widescreen TV, and I expect it to be filled entirely, all of the time’ attitude.

vila Wrote:

Censorship :-( Wrote:BTW, is anything actually shot 14:9? I thought that this was a made-up aspect to 'fudge' 4:3 broadcasts on a widescreen TV, so that there is less ‘black’ at the sides of the screen, for those strange individuals who would rather watch an inaccurate image (stretched, reduced resolution etc.) than have a part of their screen not displaying picture – ‘I paid for a widescreen TV, and I expect it to be filled entirely, all of the time’ attitude.

As far as I know nothing is actually shot in 14:9 but I thought that it was just possible that something might be converted to that format for broadcasting for exactly the misguided reasons that you quote.

I'm fairly covinced now that what we have is a 4:3 image stretched to 16:9 with the ends cropped off and broadcast as 4:3.

Dreamlander Wrote:I'm currently watching Lynsey on 906 and she is definitely being filmed in 4:3.The graphics are anamorphic which tricks your eyes into thinking you're watching a 16:9 broadcast but you're not.Charlie on 909 is being broadcast in 16:9.

Dreamlander