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Posted by Bratboy on 10/05/37 11:38
"John Howells" <john@howells-99.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Bratboy" <DontBother@Takeallthisaway.tde.com> wrote
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>> > I thought the aspect sounded odd myself but since couldnt find any
> aspect
>> > info anywhere else I just repeated the info as it was written.
>> >
>>
>> Well wrote the author and asked about it being a typo and he said
>> "The scores on the board are correct. "Doctor Who" (and all BBC product
>> come to that) is shot at 14:9."
>
> Should we now assume everything else he writes is also utter garbage?
>
> *ALL* BBC widescreen material is, without exception, shot for 16:9, the
> ratio of WS broadcast TV. When broadcast on 4:3 terrestrial it is
> converted
> to 14:9 by chopping a bit off the sides and putting small black bars top
> and
> bottom. If the resulting 14:9 with black bars in a 4:3 frame is what they
> are getting on the DVDs in Canada and the US they have my sympathies.
>
> It would not be the first time that 16:9 material had been butchered for
> the
> US markets, such as the later Poirot episodes (from Murder in Mesopotamia
> onwards), and the recent Miss Marple series (with Geraldine McEwan). They
> were made for 16:9 and chopped to 4:3 for the US market (and, yes, they
> were
> chopped, not open matte). If the butchering of Doctor Who is only to 14:9
> I
> suppose that is a bit better, but still unacceptable when you know what it
> can look like as originally intended on a WS TV.
>
> John Howells
>
Gonna hope he's wrong on it. Will know in about 2 weeks.
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