I would imagine that somebody somewhere has done some research and determined that x% of households now watch on widescreen televisions (or at least TV's that are usually switched into widescreen mode), where "x" is a large number that's fairly close to 100.
Can you still buy 4:3 TVs? Rear projection models? I think in the UK for a long time everything was kept 4:3 safe, and for the last few years of analogue transmissions, everything had thin black borders top and bottom (14:9 ratio). I think for a while some of the SD versions of channels kept their graphics in slightly different places to the HD versions - it wasn't a straight down-conversion. But in recent years, if you have a cut-out 4:3 image, then you're missing all the score boxes. And to be honest it makes sense. Having the box floating "in the middle" of the picture is odd if the vast majority of viewers are seeing a 16:9 image. Adam PS The cheapest HD sets in the UK are *way *cheaper than CRT sets ever were. I remember going out and helping mum pick out our first colour set sometime around 1985 (yes - really!), and it cost much more than a supermarket cheapie is today. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > The excuse (which came from the electronics industry, not programming > producers or providers) is that HD sets are as affordable now, as CRT sets > were in the 70s. > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
