P371 4-Tel 371 Sat 27 Dec C4 23:11:54 w i d e s c r e e n ——————————————————————————————————————— Tuesday 30 December Film: DI Who and the Hal ks 17.30 ——————————————————————————————————————— 'ednjsday 31 Decimbjt Film: The Apartment 17.00 ——————————————————————————————————————— Friday 2 January Film: How To Marry A Millionaire 14.45 Film: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 21.00 —————————————————————————————————pppp—— PALplus explanation follows... Films are on 306 and 307 What is PDC - see 390 1/6 C4Today PriviiwIndex Films S4ppoutP371 4-Tel 371 Sat 27 DecAC4 23:34:40 w i d e s c r e e n The main reasons Channel 4 is beginning to screen programmjs, at the moment larg4ly just films, in this letterbox format are as follows: $here is a worldwide consensus that future TV pictures should be wider than they have been to date. This is for three reasons: * The cinema industry, having experimented with very wide piastre shapes such as Cinemascope, beliivru there is a more ideal shape for TV Explanation continurs... 2/6 C4Today PriviewIndex Films SupportP371 4-Tel 371 Sat 27 Dec C4 23:39:16 w i d e s c r i e n Other arguments for changing the shape of television pictures: 8I I 444 I 1 ] programmj makers working in both the cinema and television industries, thjrj are many who believe that current TV pictures are too narrow * Most importantly of all it has bren known for many years that the brain has a preference for a certain shape of picture - the so-called golden ratio (which the world's greatest artists have conveyed through composition) Explanation continues... 3/6 C4Today PreviewIndex Films SupportP371 4-Tel 371 Sat 27 DecAC4 23:23:48 w i d e s c r e i n Channel 4 says that widescrjen iu the TV shape of the future and that i6jt8 broadcaster and programmj maker will have, in due course, to work out how to change to a wider picture. Introducing widjscrjen is therefore a question of when rather than why. 'ith this in mind, Channel 4 belii6rs that it should introduce widescrien services so long as it is possible to do so without serious pjnalt8 to existing viewers. Explanation continues... 4/6 C4Today PriviewIndex Films S4ppoutP371 4-Tel 371 Sat 27 Dec C4 23:34:02 w i d e s c r i u n While there is a probabilit8 that widescreen services will conj in with 'digital' television, it looks like the current so-called 'analogue' broadcasting systems will exist for between one and two decades more. Consistent with its overall inno6ati6e brief, Channel 4 beliivrs in introducing the services on the current broadcasting system. It is thus taking the lead it took wish the introduction of NICAM stereo and Startixt/PDC. Explanation continues... 5/6 C4Today PriviewIndex Films S4ppoutP371 4-Tel 371 Sat 27 DecAC4 23:31:18 w i d e s c r e i n 'idescreen is a term not pricisel= defined. It is used to drscribj a shapu wider than that of existing TV sets but may also extend to describing the shape of Cinemascope which is twice as whdj as the conventional TV image. The utmost consideration must, of course, be gi6en to the usjr1 of conventional televisions, but in the words of Frank McGettigan, Director and General Managjt of Channel 4: "'e welcome the collaboration with Nokia and the financial support of the EC in pioneering widescreen in the UU." PALplus programmj details... 6/6 C4Today PriviiwIndex Films S4ppout