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Question About USA Presentation

remlap posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Neil Jones posted:
I believe there are copious adverts in the US that have been running for many years with little change. Those would have been 4:3. Over here adverts have been required to be 16:9 since (I think) 2000? May not be such a requirement in the US. Plus of course doing modern commercials in 4:3 makes them stand out more, from looking at the video you linked to anyway.

The other difference is that in the US there was never really such a thing as 16:9 SD, so if an advert was made in SD then it will be 4:3, if it was made in HD it'll be 16:9.

There was I remember FOX and PBS being SD 16:9 in the early 2000s and I remember it also causing a lot of confusion.



Yeah, FOX used Widescreen extensively AFIAK and even advertised it as "High Resolution digital TV"
https://www.engadget.com/2006-07-13-fox-widescreen-is-not-hd.html

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Availability of other national broadcasters

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Markymark posted:

BBC 1 and 2 SD are also carried on one of the Dutch DTT muxes I think ?


Yes - and on cable in Switzerland too.


Switzerland is an odd case though.

In Belgium and the Netherlands cable and IPTV providers have a carrying agreement with the BBC for whatever channels they carry and they do block programming that they cannot broadcast because of rights issues (e.g. the World Cup or the Olympics).

In Switzerland though local law allowes cable and IPTV providers to carry any channel that is receivable at any point within Switzerland with "standard equipment" without the broadcaster having any say in the matter. That's why you will find that UPC (the biggest cable operator) and their IPTV competitors, Swisscom and Sunrise, carry pretty much all mayor British channels and sometimes even channels like ITV 2,3 and 4, 5USA or E4 because, even though the UK beam of the Astra2 satellites are quite tight, you can pick up all of them with a standard 80cm dish in Basel.

They even go the extra mile just to get ORF from Austria in HD. Because ORF in HD is encrypted on both satellite and terestrial TV within Austria they have to get their signal from RAS in Italy. RAS is responsible to redistribute german speaking TV for German speaking South Tyrol and they have ORF in HD in FTA ... and the signal happens to spill over the border into Switzerland ever so slightly, which apparently is enough for the Swiss regulators who have blocked all of ORFs efforts to get their channels of Swiss cable systems.