Up until last week our local stations (the show switched to a new TV channel with the start of year five) have shown ATLANTIS in a 4x3 screen, letterboxed, even on their digital widescreen broadcast.
Yep. Black bars all the way around on a widescreen TV, unless you zoom. (Looks even worse on a 4x3 TV that's getting a letterboxed picture already.)
As of just last weekend, tho', things suddenly switched to true widescreen.
I'm glad, but was also a little annoyed over the change. I've been recording them, and in order to get a decent picture I'd been recording off a zoomed feed meant for a 4x3 screen. (Letterboxed.)
It's a good thing they're doing repeats of the season's opening episodes now, because last week I ended up with a recording that was fullscreen 4x3, with no black bars at all. Yep. It chopped off the right and left sides, because I'd been expecting to get a letterboxed picture.
Has anyone else noticed a sudden change like this? I never understood why the station that carried the show for seasons 1-4 kept using the 4x3 template even after they went to widescreen digital. Stranger still that the station that's carrying year five has suddenly changed formats half way thru the season.
How's about you? Anyone else have this sudden change since the repeats started?
Yep. Black bars all the way around on a widescreen TV, unless you zoom. (Looks even worse on a 4x3 TV that's getting a letterboxed picture already.)
As of just last weekend, tho', things suddenly switched to true widescreen.
I'm glad, but was also a little annoyed over the change. I've been recording them, and in order to get a decent picture I'd been recording off a zoomed feed meant for a 4x3 screen. (Letterboxed.)
It's a good thing they're doing repeats of the season's opening episodes now, because last week I ended up with a recording that was fullscreen 4x3, with no black bars at all. Yep. It chopped off the right and left sides, because I'd been expecting to get a letterboxed picture.
Has anyone else noticed a sudden change like this? I never understood why the station that carried the show for seasons 1-4 kept using the 4x3 template even after they went to widescreen digital. Stranger still that the station that's carrying year five has suddenly changed formats half way thru the season.
How's about you? Anyone else have this sudden change since the repeats started?
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