God-damn widescreen TV

[cheese]

TVNZ looks like ass now they are wide screen. My poor old 32 inch mitsi can't do widescreen so I get missing words on all teh weather etc.

Bah!

[Drum]

Somebody think about the children!

[Kendog]

Somebody think about the children!

Children these days are pretty wide. So I guess TVNZ was thinking of them.

[pzkpfw]

I have a wide screen Philips with a million settings for how it applies the incomming picture to the screen.

None of them work.

[NinjaNanna]

OK Let me make this clear - TVNZ has taken a really dodgey sort cut whilst transitioning to Widescreen.

Unfortunately they have made the discision to convert all material to "13x9 letter box" for the analog services.

What this means is that the signal is cut off before it leave the studios, there is absolutely nothing you can do to correct it with your TV (short of buying Freeview Set Top Box and watching the true widescreen signal).

Hopefully they will wise up very quickly that they have chosen the wrong approach. There is technology available that handles this properly but unfortunately most people have a hard time getting their head around it.

[Bullitt]

I always have issues with widescreen tv and dvds. I dont have a widescreen tv, and neither do most other people even those with newish TVs, yet everything persists in using that format.

:(

[Street Gerbil]

I do have a wide screen tv and a freeview box and it still looks like sh!t. I wish they were doing at least something right. Is it too much to ask?

[oldrider]

Ah, so we are not alone! Bloody dickheads at TVNZ. John.

PS: Sorry Skyryder, I forgot to blame Labour! (take it as said)

[riffer]

Meh. TV3 have been doing it for months.

You have a number of choices. All of them (except to HTFU) involve throwing away more money at the problem.

That's progress, folks.

[BMW]

I have a wide screen Philips with a million settings for how it applies the incomming picture to the screen.

None of them work.

I have the same problem. Wish TVNZ would sort there sh1t out and join the rest of the world as all TV's are made overseas with there format in mind!

[jonbuoy]

Does buying a widescreen TV make the programmes better? Its the same old shite - only slightly - bigger no understande.

[Paul in NZ]

Ah, so we are not alone! Bloody dickheads at TVNZ. John.

PS: Sorry Skyryder, I forgot to blame Labour! (take it as said)

Um.... Is it TVNZ or Kordia (Old BCL)? Koriad run all the transmitter sites?

[vifferman]

I do have a wide screen tv and a freeview box and it still looks like sh!t. I wish they were doing at least something right. Is it too much to ask?
Hmmm...
Just visited the in-laws in the weekend; they have a 50" Philips and a freeview widget (that has fuktup the rest of their TVs), and their picture looks like arse too, even when they're not watching porno.

But it's actually an improvement on what it used to be when they got conned into buying their stupid rear-projection silver behemoth; to view some channels you had to stand in the kitchen, close one eye, squint with the other, and then it looked vaguely like a TV picture, albeit one watched through a confetti snowstorm.

[The Pastor]

here is an idea, turn off the tv and go for a ride!

[Swoop]

tvnz. A state owned asset that really should be put up for sale!

[Big Dave]

TVNZ - sounds interesting - What sky sport channel is it on?

[MacD]

Don't know what you guys are doing but TV1, TV2 & TV3 still look fine on my 10+ year old 4:3 analogue TV, and the widescreen stuff looks OK through SKY on the widescreen set.

If Freeview is anything like the Sky decoder you may have to configure what type of TV is attached to it, 4:3 (standard) or 16:9 (widescreen) or things get a bit confused.

As for the standard terrestrial signal, it seems to be being broadcast mostly in Pan & Scan format or occasionally letterboxed (black bars top and bottom). Movies have been broadcast in Pan & Scan for years to fit 4:3 TVs so it's hardly new. The station logo marks the edge of the 4:3 format, so should be visible on all sets. Maybe some tweaking of the horizontal picture size is needed on some sets?

[peasea]

[QUOTE=NinjaNanna;1217519] there is absolutely nothing you can do to correct it QUOTE]



Try turning it off.

[Guitana]

Wait until you accidentally get a close up of Aunty Helen on the big screen you'll be wishing you'd been stabbed in the eyes with blunt barbecue instruments!!!!!!