Ratopall(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 13th June 2002, 12:57
Watching the ad for "the new series of Angel" on Channel 4, I couldn`t wait to see it, the ad was in widescreen and naturally I thought it would be too. WRONG! Six Feet Under, the ad was in widescreen, the program wasn`t, again with Will & Grace ( the first ad wasn`t cropped). If a program isn`t widescreen don`t advertise it as being. There`s no excuse with Angel though, Sky One didn`t show it in widescreen and channel 4 didn`t with the first series, as the DVD set was in widescreen and the Channel 4 ad was I thought they would deliver the goods but again WRONG! What`s going on!
RE: Annoyed by Channel 4!
Sarah Scott(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 13th June 2002, 16:08
Don`t get annoyed get even!
In the words of the "Why don`t you gang"...just switch of your TV set and go and do something less boring instead.
or
console yourself in the fact that it`s probably all based on statistics and that not everybody owns widescreen TVs yet, or, and perish the thought, hate widescreen. Yes, it`s true, there`s people out there who get annoyed with black bars. It`s a very selective thing though, as these very same people can traverse the a zebra crossing with ease.
The ads are probably not changed from widescreen to 4:3 for cost reasons and they only run for 30 seconds. My biggest annoyance is my widescreen TV automaticaly switching from 4:3 to 16:9 to 4:3 to 16:9...while watching ER..which is in widescreen...HURRAY!
...hell it is annoying isn`t it!
RE: Annoyed by Channel 4!
Ratopall(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 13th June 2002, 18:11
Ok, but these ads are just cropped 4:3, with peoples heads going off screen, plus I`m a digital viewer with a widescreen so for me no black lines and other digital viewers can just choose to watch cropped 16:9. For all the others who don`t have digital or embrace widescreen, tough, get with the times.
