[vdr] Re: Black Border on BBC TV sport transmissions

[Brian_Dorling@t-online.de (Brian Dorling)]

Gulp, mea culpa etc.........

Shows how much attention I have paid to the pundits.........

I'll need to  take a look this evening, I was going to anyway.

Cheers Brian


Dominic Morris wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > anyone else watching the European Football on BBC via sat?
> > Even the Wimbledon transmissions have the same effect.
> > I have the strange effect that there is a black border around the screen.
> > I checked the properties and according to projectX they are sending;
> >
> > -> video basics: 720*576 @ 25fps @ 0.7031 (16:9) @ 15000000bps,
> >
> > So it really looks as if they are sending a black border. I tried 4*3 and 
> > 16*9 seettings in VDR and that just screws up the proportions.
> >
> > Is this normal for BBC Sport?
>
> Yup, normal for the BBC at any rate! The studio pundits are filmed at 
> 16:9 and the feed from Portugal is at 4:3, since they don't like to change 
> the aspect ratio during a programme they send out the match bordered.
>
> Be grateful you cann't get ITV - they have lovely coloured pattern bars 
> down the side instead!
>
> I'm not sure how it's handled on DVB-T though. Since I can't display off 
> screen using ivtv I don't interpret the AFD flags - are they sending them 
> down so STBs can do a punchout?
>
> cheers,
>
> d.