[opendtv] Re: News: See the Big Picture? Don't Forget to Examine the Fine Print
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:28:46 -0400
At 6:58 PM +0100 5/4/04, Alan Roberts wrote:
>OK, I'll accept that. The word analogue was required to avoid confusion.
>Also, you should have taken out "BBC" because although ALL UK analogue
>channels are 4:3, they sometimes carry widescreen programming
>cropped/letterboxed to 14:9 and sometimes deep letterboxed as 16:9. BBC
>Sport doesn't do either, they crop to 4:3 so that it fills the screen in
>analogue. It's very dangerous making statements about what's actually done
>in the UK, without direct access to it to check.
Thanks Alan.
Sometime people take thing too literally here. i was merely trying to
point out that all content must be accommodated across many
infrastructures. I personally believe that viewers are beginning to
accept the notion that content does not ALWAYS need to fill the
screen they are using at any given time.
Motion picture theaters have been aspect ratio agnostic for
years...but they have movable curtains to mask off the unused
portions of the screen.
Regards
Craig
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