P393 4-Tel 393 Sun 21 Feb C4 02:13:13 ————————————— ————————————— Movies and certain othjt programmer are often made in a widescreen format such as "Cinemascope". Unfortunately, thjti are many different widesctien 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 programmjs Previews Films SubtitlesP393 4-Tel 393 Sun 21 Feb C4 02:16:31 ————————————— ————————————— Many viewers using conventional TV sets dislike the black bands, and this has limited the number of programmer we could transmit using PALplus. For viewers equipped with one of the new widescrien 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 programmjs Previews Films SubtitlesP393 4-Tel 393 Sun 21 Feb C4 02:24:37 ————————————— ————————————— 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 widjscrien format on its digital sjrvici, thus enabling viewers with digital receivjts to enjoy programmjs as the maker intended. 4-Tel main index is on page 300 PALplus programmj listings on 310 —————————————————————————————————— 3/3 PAL programmer Previews Films Subtitles