watching the 1982 top of the pops xmas special on bbc 4 tonight (!) i saw
the following....
obviously a show of such vintage was 4:3, and they were broadcasting it 4:3

except.....

what appears to have happened is the 4:3 image had been stretched to 16:9
and then cropped to 4:3 - resulting in image loss and everyone looking fat -
just like when you watch tv with people who insist on their tv shows filling
the screen regardless of original aspect ratio.

i actually encountered this a couple of years back during an airing of the
rock and roll years - it was really obvious then as the onscreen captions
were cut off at the edges. that time i called the duty office and after a
while it was fixed.

it does make you wonder if anyone at the bbc was actually watching their
output.


it finally fixed itself at the 12 minute mark.


-- 
Gareth.

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> it finally fixed itself at the 12 minute mark.

Coincidentally, at the time it 'fixed itself', I was chatting to the duty 
manager at the Media Centre, suggesting that he take a look at BBC4.

L

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