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I've got a 2 year old CRT widescreen television plugged into a bog-standard Sky box.
I've noticed recently that the BBC seems to have disregarded the importance of safe areas with their on-screen graphics. The BBC needs to be reminded that a hell of a lot of people don't all have 50" plasma/LCD HD-ready televisions which pretty much show 99.9% of the picture unlike CRT models which 'chop' off around 5% of the picture around the edges - hence the need for safe areas.
I've quickly knocked this image up in Photoshop to demonstrate what BBC News looks like now. Note the ticker, logo and clock are almost completely hidden - only the top of the boxes on the BBC logo are visible.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/1863/bbcsafeareacrap.jpg
It's not just the news, either. I flicked onto Songs of Praise just now, and the hymn lyrics at the bottom of the screen are way out of the safe area.
What's going on, then? Have the BBC disregarded the importance of keeping on-screen graphics inside a universally accepted safe area? If so, why?
I've noticed recently that the BBC seems to have disregarded the importance of safe areas with their on-screen graphics. The BBC needs to be reminded that a hell of a lot of people don't all have 50" plasma/LCD HD-ready televisions which pretty much show 99.9% of the picture unlike CRT models which 'chop' off around 5% of the picture around the edges - hence the need for safe areas.
I've quickly knocked this image up in Photoshop to demonstrate what BBC News looks like now. Note the ticker, logo and clock are almost completely hidden - only the top of the boxes on the BBC logo are visible.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/1863/bbcsafeareacrap.jpg
It's not just the news, either. I flicked onto Songs of Praise just now, and the hymn lyrics at the bottom of the screen are way out of the safe area.
What's going on, then? Have the BBC disregarded the importance of keeping on-screen graphics inside a universally accepted safe area? If so, why?