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[davmel]

BamBBBam, on Sep 2 2010, 08:52 AM, said:

As someone else said, the Hong Kong base of discovery only has 4:3 tellies to fit in their tiny dogboxes apartments so couldn't even see the wide parts of the screen

Obviously someone is so upset at the continuing use of 4:3 ratios for the Discovery SD channels that they took matters into their own hands:
http://www.theage.co...tml?autostart=1

[doodlefeatures]

davmel, on Sep 2 2010, 09:23 AM, said:

Obviously someone is so upset at the continuing use of 4:3 ratios for the Discovery SD channels that they took matters into their own hands:
http://www.theage.co...tml?autostart=1

haha, I was just about to post the same thing, he wanted to see Mythbusters on the HD channel

[muttonface]

Just a slightly off-topic question, I understand Fuel TV has converted to widescreen but how come half of their shows have black bars surrounding them? The ads are widescreen, UFC is in widescreen but a show such as Attack of the Show isn't, doesn't make any sense =[

[kert58]

Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Nat Geo Wild are all now in widescreen!

[ChrisCh]

kert58, on Nov 1 2010, 08:49 AM, said:

Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Nat Geo Wild are all now in widescreen!

Discovery & Animal Planet are, but Nat Geo Wild is only widescreen on the HD channel... the SD channel, which is screening the same content, is still 4:3, despite the WS icon being set in the EPG... Perhaps that will get fixed in the next few days?

Edited by ChrisCh, 01 November 2010 - 10:10 AM.

[davmel]

kert58, on Nov 1 2010, 09:49 AM, said:

Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Nat Geo Wild are all now in widescreen!

Finally full 720x576i resolution in instead of the pathetic 480x576i resolution for the past 15 years an no more combined letter and pillar boxing on widescreen TV's. Some of the newer series should now look much better.

[muttonface]

I thought the day would never come =]

[timy]

muttonface, on Nov 1 2010, 09:24 PM, said:

I thought the day would never come =]

natgeo wild is not widescreen only the HD channel is so why are people stating incorrect info on this thread?

[muttonface]

timy, on Nov 2 2010, 12:01 AM, said:

natgeo wild is not widescreen only the HD channel is so why are people stating incorrect info on this thread?

I never stated it, not that I'm watching the SD version anyway.

[davmel]

Discovery and Animal Planet still look heavily compressed as a result of the overseas feed even though the local broadcast now has adequate resolution and bitrate. So even though Foxtel has done their part, Discovery Asia needs to invest in some larger transmission links.

[djpower]

Nat Geo Adventure and Nat Geo Adventure+2 will be broadcast in 16:9 widescreen from November 11 according to Austar website

[doodlefeatures]

djpower, on Nov 3 2010, 10:36 AM, said:

Nat Geo Adventure and Nat Geo Adventure+2 will be broadcast in 16:9 widescreen from November 11 according to Austar website

So what will that leave...Science, Health, the old VH1 (is that MTV 'Classic'?), Eurosport News, TMC, CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg?  Any cartoon channels?
And Nat Geo Wild

Edited by doodlefeatures, 03 November 2010 - 09:50 AM.

[msheldrick]

MOVIES

TCM

SPORTS

Eurosportnews

NEWS & DOCOS

CNN International
Nat Geo Wild
Nat Geo Adventure/+2 (WS Nov 11)
Discovery Science
Discovery Home & Health
Bloomberg
CNBC Australia

KIDS & FAMILY

Cartoon Network
Boomerang
KidsCo

MUSIC

MTV Classic

SPECIAL INTEREST

Antenna
Raitalia

Total: 15... 17 incl. +2

[justin25]

Why the hell hasn't tcm gone widescreen

[gsxrboy]

msheldrick, on Nov 3 2010, 11:23 AM, said:

Total: 15... 17 incl. +2

Back(ish in Dec 2008) when the thread was started we had :-

TOTAL: 35 channels - 37 if timeshifts are included

So they are doing about one a month  

[ChrisCh]

gsxrboy, on Nov 3 2010, 04:52 PM, said:

So they are doing about one a month  

They're going to have to do a lot more than that before the end of December if they're going to keep their already modified 2008 promise of "everything being widescreen by the end of 2008" ... two years ago... See if they can manage it this year!

[wilrc1]

ChrisCh, on Nov 3 2010, 11:29 PM, said:

They're going to have to do a lot more than that before the end of December if they're going to keep their already modified 2008 promise of "everything being widescreen by the end of 2008" ... two years ago... See if they can manage it this year!

I would love to know how they expect to get a widescreen version of CNN Asia... it just doesnt exist!

[justin25]

Looks like the rest of the cartoon station will be going widescreen November 30, 2010 Cartoon Network-

Source Wikipedia

[timy]

Why isn't nat geo adventure and the plus 2 channel widescreen today as stated in this thread

Edited by timy, 11 November 2010 - 05:58 PM.

[djpower]

timy, on Nov 11 2010, 06:57 PM, said:

Why isn't nat geo adventure and the plus 2 channel widescreen today as stated in this thread

I got the information directly off Austar website which I thought was a pretty safe source, I just checked back and no information has changed its still listing Nat Geo Adventure to be going 16:9 today.  So why this never happened I am unsure

[BamBBBam]

It's still in 4:3

[ADstv]

MTV Classic is now Widescreen as of today.

[msheldrick]

MOVIES

TCM

SPORTS

Eurosportnews

NEWS & DOCOS

CNN International
Nat Geo Wild
Nat Geo Adventure/+2
Discovery Science
Discovery Home & Health
Bloomberg
CNBC Australia

KIDS & FAMILY

Cartoon Network
Boomerang
KidsCo

SPECIAL INTEREST

Antenna
Raitalia

[doodlefeatures]

djpower, on Nov 11 2010, 07:53 PM, said:

I got the information directly off Austar website which I thought was a pretty safe source, I just checked back and no information has changed its still listing Nat Geo Adventure to be going 16:9 today.  So why this never happened I am unsure

Austar's website still has this, maybe it's widescreen on Austar only lol

[killer1500]

Its definatly not widescreen on Austar...there has been some mis-communication somewhere.

Someone posted on Facebook about it, and Austar defiantly said someone on there end said they were difinatly switching to widescreen.