BN
I was just about to post that I noticed the animation on the stings were smoother...now I know why!
OV
ITV News has full 16:9 playout capabilities, as seen on the 'Coming Up at 10:30' promos which are 16:9. It's just the waiting for certain regions *cough*Channel*cough* that is letting the others down.
ab posted:
I wonder if ITV News will follow soon but is taking longer than Channel 4 as they're waiting to have upgraded all the regions first?
ITV News has full 16:9 playout capabilities, as seen on the 'Coming Up at 10:30' promos which are 16:9. It's just the waiting for certain regions *cough*Channel*cough* that is letting the others down.
MA
ITV News has full 16:9 playout capabilities, as seen on the 'Coming Up at 10:30' promos which are 16:9. It's just the waiting for certain regions *cough*Channel*cough* that is letting the others down.
But Channel don't show anything in widescreen anyway. It's all 14:9 on there (D-Sat and analogue), so what's the problem ?
Orry Verducci posted:
ab posted:
I wonder if ITV News will follow soon but is taking longer than Channel 4 as they're waiting to have upgraded all the regions first?
ITV News has full 16:9 playout capabilities, as seen on the 'Coming Up at 10:30' promos which are 16:9. It's just the waiting for certain regions *cough*Channel*cough* that is letting the others down.
But Channel don't show anything in widescreen anyway. It's all 14:9 on there (D-Sat and analogue), so what's the problem ?
BR
Did we completly miss it on the News at Noon as well then?
According to the C4 blogs, the rest of ITN are staying in their "square box":
A couple of entries:
http://www.channel4.com/blogs/page/newsroom?entry=the_big_w_day
http://www.channel4.com/blogs/page/newsroom?entry=escaping_the_box
According to the C4 blogs, the rest of ITN are staying in their "square box":
Quote:
Of course we live in a commercial world and the main reason for the change is that our customers want widescreen. The real problem for Channel 4 News is that only we are converting - the rest of ITN is still constrained in the box.
A couple of entries:
http://www.channel4.com/blogs/page/newsroom?entry=the_big_w_day
http://www.channel4.com/blogs/page/newsroom?entry=escaping_the_box
JH
Being in 16:9 makes animations smoother???
Breakfast News posted:
I was just about to post that I noticed the animation on the stings were smoother...now I know why!
Being in 16:9 makes animations smoother???
JH
You didn't spot this, then, over in the ITV News thread on 9th January?
ab posted:
So it is! Didn't see that coming given the excuses we've heard from ITN in the past.
You didn't spot this, then, over in the ITV News thread on 9th January?
fanoftv posted:
No one seems to have mentioned the little piece in todays media guardian about ITN news crews having to start a report by filming a tennis ball for 15 seconds so that they know if their report is being filmed in 4:3 to be cropped or on their new 16:9 kit.
Could this mean a change to proper widescreen soon? If so, it's about time.
Surely the studio is already capable as shown on the pre advert previews.
Could this mean a change to proper widescreen soon? If so, it's about time.
Surely the studio is already capable as shown on the pre advert previews.
JH
Ah-ha! Caught out then, eh?
Luke posted:
yes but that was in the ITV News thread - most people expected ITN to go widescreen on ITV first, rather than Channel 4.
Ah-ha! Caught out then, eh?
OV
Ah-ha! Caught out then, eh?
Well ITN has gone 16:9 with ITV News as I said above, it just ITV are cropping it, as they do with the regions too (yet many of the regions feed the regional news to ITV in 16:9). Just watch the aformentioned 'Coming Up at 10:30' promos (usually on at the end of the ad break 15 mins before) and you can clearly notice the sharper 16:9 picture, that and the graphic doesn't sit on the bottom of the screen.
Jonathan H posted:
Luke posted:
yes but that was in the ITV News thread - most people expected ITN to go widescreen on ITV first, rather than Channel 4.
Ah-ha! Caught out then, eh?
Well ITN has gone 16:9 with ITV News as I said above, it just ITV are cropping it, as they do with the regions too (yet many of the regions feed the regional news to ITV in 16:9). Just watch the aformentioned 'Coming Up at 10:30' promos (usually on at the end of the ad break 15 mins before) and you can clearly notice the sharper 16:9 picture, that and the graphic doesn't sit on the bottom of the screen.
Thanks for pointing it out.