PE
Anybody ever noticed how you can always see the edge of the set on the left hand side of the screen during the titles in the old Blockbusters episodes shown on Challenge these days? This probably wasn't noticeable in its original airings on ITV in the days when everyone would have had 4:3 TVs.
That's the DVE causing that. It's the titles being keyed over the studio so when the page turn effect starts, it wipes through to the studio. It just so happens it took one or two vertical rows of pixels with it.
You wouldn't have seen it on a 4:3 set, but when it's arc'd to 16:9 you'll see the full width.
peterrocket
Founding member
Anybody ever noticed how you can always see the edge of the set on the left hand side of the screen during the titles in the old Blockbusters episodes shown on Challenge these days? This probably wasn't noticeable in its original airings on ITV in the days when everyone would have had 4:3 TVs.
That's the DVE causing that. It's the titles being keyed over the studio so when the page turn effect starts, it wipes through to the studio. It just so happens it took one or two vertical rows of pixels with it.
You wouldn't have seen it on a 4:3 set, but when it's arc'd to 16:9 you'll see the full width.
DA
I was watching Blockbusters on a 4:3 TV less than a month ago. I could see the studio on the left of the titles on there. There is one episode where the camera moves up and down a bit too, as if the operator was still framing the shot while the titles were running.
I think it has more to do with the amount of overscan on the TV rather than the shape of the screen. I had gone in to the engineering menu on my 4:3 Sony to reduce the overscan to the least possible. I don't think I have watched Blockbusters since I have gone 16:9, it is possible that I will see less of the picture now than I did before if the overscan is turned right up.
You wouldn't have seen it on a 4:3 set, but when it's arc'd to 16:9 you'll see the full width.
I was watching Blockbusters on a 4:3 TV less than a month ago. I could see the studio on the left of the titles on there. There is one episode where the camera moves up and down a bit too, as if the operator was still framing the shot while the titles were running.
I think it has more to do with the amount of overscan on the TV rather than the shape of the screen. I had gone in to the engineering menu on my 4:3 Sony to reduce the overscan to the least possible. I don't think I have watched Blockbusters since I have gone 16:9, it is possible that I will see less of the picture now than I did before if the overscan is turned right up.
NJ
Yes but the point that's been made is that the issue in question sits in the overscan area on the far left of the picture and is not meant to be seen and therefore becomes irrelevant with the size of the screen. If you are going to fiddle with the engineering menus to decrease the overscan, you'll see things like this. It would not have been an issue in 1992 as the only people who played with those menus were those who calibrated the screens in the factory and possibly TV engineers.
The advent of the TV capture card to a computer reveals a bunch of unique and what some might say "strange" things going on in the picture that they wouldn't have seen first time round. The presence of the Blockbusters studio, albeit only being the blue edge of the main board is one of them. You could also argue the same thing about Cue Dots when those things, all on the whole, stopped appearing on the main picture for pre-recorded programming but continued to float around in the top overscan area.
By the way, if you're watching Blockbusters 1992 and it fills a 16:9 screen fully, you're not watching it correctly. Even if you do watch it correctly (pillar-boxed), most 16:9 TVs continue to overscan a 4:3 picture in the same way a 16:9 picture does so you ain't going to see anything that wouldn't have been seen on a regular 4:3 TV regardless of whether it's squashyvision, stretchy-vision, viewed upside-down, back-to-front or any other obscure picture setting widescreen TVs seem to have these days.
Neil Jones
Founding member
I was watching Blockbusters on a 4:3 TV less than a month ago. I could see the studio on the left of the titles on there. There is one episode where the camera moves up and down a bit too, as if the operator was still framing the shot while the titles were running.
I think it has more to do with the amount of overscan on the TV rather than the shape of the screen. I had gone in to the engineering menu on my 4:3 Sony to reduce the overscan to the least possible. I don't think I have watched Blockbusters since I have gone 16:9, it is possible that I will see less of the picture now than I did before if the overscan is turned right up.
I think it has more to do with the amount of overscan on the TV rather than the shape of the screen. I had gone in to the engineering menu on my 4:3 Sony to reduce the overscan to the least possible. I don't think I have watched Blockbusters since I have gone 16:9, it is possible that I will see less of the picture now than I did before if the overscan is turned right up.
Yes but the point that's been made is that the issue in question sits in the overscan area on the far left of the picture and is not meant to be seen and therefore becomes irrelevant with the size of the screen. If you are going to fiddle with the engineering menus to decrease the overscan, you'll see things like this. It would not have been an issue in 1992 as the only people who played with those menus were those who calibrated the screens in the factory and possibly TV engineers.
The advent of the TV capture card to a computer reveals a bunch of unique and what some might say "strange" things going on in the picture that they wouldn't have seen first time round. The presence of the Blockbusters studio, albeit only being the blue edge of the main board is one of them. You could also argue the same thing about Cue Dots when those things, all on the whole, stopped appearing on the main picture for pre-recorded programming but continued to float around in the top overscan area.
By the way, if you're watching Blockbusters 1992 and it fills a 16:9 screen fully, you're not watching it correctly. Even if you do watch it correctly (pillar-boxed), most 16:9 TVs continue to overscan a 4:3 picture in the same way a 16:9 picture does so you ain't going to see anything that wouldn't have been seen on a regular 4:3 TV regardless of whether it's squashyvision, stretchy-vision, viewed upside-down, back-to-front or any other obscure picture setting widescreen TVs seem to have these days.
:-(
A former member
Has any clips of this promo appeared yet?
Heres a promo from 1985: HOW can there clam 12million people watched it when even in London it never went out that often..
Heres a promo from 1985: HOW can there clam 12million people watched it when even in London it never went out that often..
JB
I wonder if the new theme tune will appear on a certain music library?
Promos have begun on Challenge for Blockbusters. They feature people humming the theme tune, then Simon Mayo popping up saying "You know how it goes" followed by a quick burst of the refreshed theme tune. Sadly, no video, but the theme tune sounds really good.
I wonder if the new theme tune will appear on a certain music library?
:-(
A former member
Promos have begun on Challenge for Blockbusters. They feature people humming the theme tune, then Simon Mayo popping up saying "You know how it goes" followed by a quick burst of the refreshed theme tune. Sadly, no video, but the theme tune sounds really good.
I wonder if the new theme tune will appear on a certain music library?
I been informed something might appear on the challenge website.
GM
Challenge have just showed an extended version of that promo just before Strike It Rich came on. Date wise in May am gonna plump for Monday the 14th...
Challenge have just showed an extended version of that promo just before Strike It Rich came on. Date wise in May am gonna plump for Monday the 14th...
GM
Go back a page Gaz, Challenge have confirmed May 8th is when it begins.
Oh my mistake! You get to hear a bit more of the updated music in the extended promo, and it really does sound fantastic!
Date wise in May am gonna plump for Monday the 14th...
Go back a page Gaz, Challenge have confirmed May 8th is when it begins.
Oh my mistake! You get to hear a bit more of the updated music in the extended promo, and it really does sound fantastic!