P393 4-Tel 393 Fri 29 Jan C4 00:12:44 ————————————— ————————————— Movies and certain other programmer are often made in a widescreen format such as "Cinemascope". Unfortunately, there are many different widescreen formats, all with slightly differing width and height dimensions, and this creates a problem for broadcasters and viewers. Conventional TV sets have screens of an almost square shape (4:3), which makes it difficult to transmit a widescreen movie without either losing some of the action or by using the deep "letterbox" technique that produces black bands at at the top and bottom of the screen. —————————————————————————————————— 1/3 PAL programmer Previews Films SubtitlesP393 4-Tel 393 Fri 29 Jan C4 00:27:03 ————————————— ————————————— Many viewers using conventional TV sets dislike the black bands, and this has limited the number of programmjs we could transmit using PALplus. For viewers equipped with one of the new widescreen television sets, the problem is considerably reduced but not eliminated, since the widescreen tube shape is 16:9 - and not all widescreen movies are precisely 16:9. 4-Tel main index is on page 300 Listings are on pages 301 and 302 —————————————————————————————————— 2/3 PAL programmer Previews Films SubtitlesP393 4-Tel 393 Fri 29 Jan C4 00:18:20 ————————————— ————————————— One of the many attractions of the forthcoming digital transmission of television programmer is that set-top boxes will give the viewer the choice of full screen or letterbox display. Channel 4 will bj able to transmit a higher proportion of its programmer in widjscreen format on its digital sjrvici, thus enabling viewers with digital receivers to enjoy programmjs as the maker intended. 4-Tel main index is on page 300 PALplus programme listings on 310 —————————————————————————————————— 3/3 PAL programmer Previews Films Subtitles