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Five - aspect ratio changes on Freeview?

(December 2004)

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Brekkie
Five seems to have changed the aspect ratio it broadcasts in on Freeview in the last week.

Firstly, on our Daewoo Setpal, widescreen programmes now appear in 16:9 letterbox (on a 4:3 TV), when previously they've appeared in 14:9 on the "Normal 4:3" setting.

And secondly, on my Sagem box the 4:3 picture (eg Five News) now switches to 4:3, rather than being letterboxed in a 16:9 frame which is already letterboxed to 4:3.
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ashley b Founding member
Yeah I noticed recently too (posted in "the five thread" http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12810&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=24 ), must have changed monday as I noticed it on Tuesday.
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Brekkie
ashley b posted:
Yeah I noticed recently too (posted in "the five thread" http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12810&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=24 ), must have changed monday as I noticed it on Tuesday.


Aaaaghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

No wonder it's hardly been spotted - that thread was set up quite rightly to discuss the (surprise!) changing to five idents - not every single thing to do with Five.

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