[opendtv] Re: 20060807 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: "Donald Koeleman" <donald.koeleman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:09:25 +0200
To add to this, befor we have converted most show to regular widescreen,
they have converted even the early morning stuff, (how would Fred Oster look
in HD;-)). Yup, now you can see Bob Barker's 80(?) year old face in glorious
Widescreen HD, now lets go give away some cars...*.
And the Today show will be in HD as well.
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10524
*Two years ago we could watch Columbus Ohio's TV 10 online, he gave away
three cars to one contestant, befor the first commercial break. BTW, does
anyone know of a nice US network stream we could tap into;-).
Donald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Koeleman" <donald.koeleman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:15 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20060807 Mark's Monday Memo
That's complete BS, Jeroen, overhere they even cut-off the sides of the
original widescreen worldcup feed. Yep, this was the fifth or even sixth
world cup since the introduction of widescreen television.
16:9 will become the standard, but it still isn't the standard, the RTL
group controlled channels may only start switching over next year, currently
they are exclusively 4:3.
It becomes especially obvious when you compare the Dutch broadcasters to
their Flemish counterparts at VRT. Actually they worked together reporting
on reports from Italy on the eve of the elections, guess what I watched the
report on the VRT's 'Ter Zake' current events programme in widescreen. The
next night the reworked report was shown on the Dutch current affairs show
'Nova', guess what, yes as the report started I could see the faces, and so
on, get streched vertically, yes they are doing everything in good ol'
1.33:1.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeroen Stessen" <jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:45 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20060807 Mark's Monday Memo
Hi,
Craig:
> This age old discussion is ridiculous!
(...)
> I now have a 16:9 HDTV display and I can tell you that it is rare
> when the entire screen is filled.
What can I say... your country is lagging behind. Seriously behind.
In this neighborhood 16:9 is the standard for today, and wider
than 16:9 is the future. 4:3 TVs are only still selling well in
supermarkets and drugstores. Watch this space...
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