See you in another 10 years.
BH
BillyH
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I have an old 'Right to Reply' from October 1994 which mentions Channel 4 experimenting with widescreen broadcasts and viewers being confused with the black bars appearing on their televisions. It mentions widescreen televisions being available to buy, but cost well over a thousand pounds(!) and not predicted to be popular "for the forseeable future". I'll have to dig it out and upload it if I find it.
'The Price Is Right' were giving away widescreen TVs as prizes circa 1997, still a year before any actual television transmissions began in the format.
'The Price Is Right' were giving away widescreen TVs as prizes circa 1997, still a year before any actual television transmissions began in the format.
WP
Yes, normally with a shatliffed 'Bruce's Price is Right' logo on the screen as if to illustrate that point.
'The Price Is Right' were giving away widescreen TVs as prizes circa 1997, still a year before any actual television transmissions began in the format.
Yes, normally with a shatliffed 'Bruce's Price is Right' logo on the screen as if to illustrate that point.
NG
'The Price Is Right' were giving away widescreen TVs as prizes circa 1997, still a year before any actual television transmissions began in the format.
Though by 1997 it was only digital 16:9 anamorphic broadcasts that had yet to start. There were deep letterboxed 16:9 stuff carried on analogue (some PALplus, some not), and MAC anamorphic stuff elsewhere in Europe. There were also 16:9 DVDs beginning to appear.
noggin
Founding member
'The Price Is Right' were giving away widescreen TVs as prizes circa 1997, still a year before any actual television transmissions began in the format.
Though by 1997 it was only digital 16:9 anamorphic broadcasts that had yet to start. There were deep letterboxed 16:9 stuff carried on analogue (some PALplus, some not), and MAC anamorphic stuff elsewhere in Europe. There were also 16:9 DVDs beginning to appear.
SD
http://up.metropol247.co.uk/stu/iba1.jpg
http://up.metropol247.co.uk/stu/iba2.jpg
Great thread - I've dug out some scans from the IBA yearbook of 87 of them demonstrating C-MAC, in 5:3.
http://up.metropol247.co.uk/stu/iba2.jpg
Great thread - I've dug out some scans from the IBA yearbook of 87 of them demonstrating C-MAC, in 5:3.
MA
LOL, just to prove how sad I am, I know the ex IBA engineer, whose house that is in that shot
http://up.metropol247.co.uk/stu/iba1.jpg
Great thread - I've dug out some scans from the IBA yearbook of 87 of them demonstrating C-MAC, in 5:3.
Great thread - I've dug out some scans from the IBA yearbook of 87 of them demonstrating C-MAC, in 5:3.
LOL, just to prove how sad I am, I know the ex IBA engineer, whose house that is in that shot
SP
I'm fairly certain the weekend omnibus of Brookside was shown in deep letterbox, but the weekday editions were 4:3 (or possibly 14:9).
I'm pretty sure Brookside was never shown that like, there'd have been an outcry, 15 to 1, possibly though.
I'm fairly certain the weekend omnibus of Brookside was shown in deep letterbox, but the weekday editions were 4:3 (or possibly 14:9).
NG
Yep the early NHK HDTV stuff was 5:3 (aka 15:9) as well.
noggin
Founding member
http://up.metropol247.co.uk/stu/iba1.jpg
http://up.metropol247.co.uk/stu/iba2.jpg
Great thread - I've dug out some scans from the IBA yearbook of 87 of them demonstrating C-MAC, in 5:3.
http://up.metropol247.co.uk/stu/iba2.jpg
Great thread - I've dug out some scans from the IBA yearbook of 87 of them demonstrating C-MAC, in 5:3.
Yep the early NHK HDTV stuff was 5:3 (aka 15:9) as well.