If they increased the font and made the clock a bit bigger where it was I would have supported that, but it looks so out of place where it is... And the gaping hole where the clock used to be looks ridiculous. Overall it was a really good revamp and there's probably a few more tweaks in the works, lets hope they move it back. It's not as if 4:3 viewers don't have a clock in their home anyway!
It's an interesting idea, I'd prefer is the whole box was black not just the bit directly around the clock, but at least 4:3ers can see the time now...
Ok, great. It works when I put it in the 'Widescreen' mode, but I don't like it as all the heads go like skinny eggs! But now their shouldn't be a problem if NEWS24 have fixed it . . . So I shall keep it in 'normal' mode.
(Telewest TV, or Virgin Media - which hasn't arrived).
What about adjusting your receiver box too (Digital or Freeview or whatever) to 16:9 / widescreen / letterbox so that you don't get a compressed image?
But, on principle, I don't think they should have given in to the 4:3 luddites. If people are being encouraged to switch to digital, why aren't they getting the same encouragement to switch to a widescreen picture? This was a good opportunity to push that - and they could even have done a 'how to get your clock back' type feature.
God this really annoys me - widescreen has been going for 10 years now and still we are at the status quo of having graphics all lined up for the minority of people who still have 4:3 sets - it looked alot better before they moved it - now less than half the screen has the ticker on it.
What's more - someone with a 4:3 set must be able to see very little in the way of ticker now too so it all seems a bit pointless.
