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Bloomberg TV going full-screen

(September 2007)

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stuartfanning
Bloomberg TV in the US went full-screen a few days ago. Bloomberg TV UK will follow mid to late October.

http://www.gogomag.com/cgi-bin/tvheads_viewer.pl?tvheads245317&245317&Betty
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Nick Harvey Founding member
When you say "full screen", am I right in assuming the picture will take up the whole of the transmitted screen, but they will still transmit in 4:3?
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stuartfanning
Nick Harvey posted:
When you say "full screen", am I right in assuming the picture will take up the whole of the transmitted screen, but they will still transmit in 4:3?
They will continue to transmit in 4:3. The big change is to get rid of the graphics block on the right hand of the screen as shown in the picture I posted.
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noggin Founding member
Ah - historically wasn't Bloomberg smaller in-screen because they used all sorts of low-resolution video links for a lot of their contributions and they looked pants full-frame? Sounds like they've upgraded their kit...
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DVB Cornwall
Really wish they'd up the bit rate on their online feeds, running at less than 200kbps these days is really low, and that's the US feed, The UK one runs at 64kbps maximum.
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rdd Founding member
In otherwards, a lot more like CNBC.

CNBC's a lot more livelier and accesible than Bloomberg, on the other hand, any time I walk into a bank and they have a financial channel on, it seems to be Bloomberg rather than CNBC.
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st1407
Are they also planning to put the German version into fullscreen? Does anyone know? Thanks!
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Blake Connolly Founding member
rdd posted:
In otherwards, a lot more like CNBC.

CNBC's a lot more livelier and accesible than Bloomberg, on the other hand, any time I walk into a bank and they have a financial channel on, it seems to be Bloomberg rather than CNBC.


Yeah, I don't think I've seen CNBC on display anyway. You see Bloomberg very often, the other day I was walking past a building in the city and they had an enormous projection screen (I'm talking cinema-size screen) of Bloomberg in reception.

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stuartfanning
The Bloomberg 'new look' started today.
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Joe
He looks slightly bemused at his new larger face.
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jamesmd
Christ, Jon Snow/Paul Gambaccini's getting on a bit.
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Dominic M
I think you'll find that the guy pictured in the last two screen shots is Bloomberg Television's UK presenter, Paul George.

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