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- From: dvp@getafix (Dave Parry)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: Showtime is running Cape Fear LBX
- Message-ID: <1799@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:47:25 GMT
- References: <BP.93Jan21191847@swamp.cs.brown.edu>
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- Boris Putanec (bp@cs.brown.edu) wrote:
- : In article <C17ut3.49t@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
-
- : Having just returned from a few weeks in Europe I was amazed to see MOST
- : movies were shown in letter-box form on French TV.
-
- : Another data point. I spent 3 weeks in Austria and almost every move I
- : saw was letterboxed. This was true for the two Austrian national
- : channels, the 3 major German networks--ABC, NBC and CBS equivalents,
- : and the satellite only channles--RTL and Sat*1.
-
- : When I asked my parents, they said "It has always been this way"
- : (funny, cause I don't remember it being that way last January I was
- : there). They also agreed with me that it makes much more sense to see
- : the whole file image instead of only a portion.
-
- : Sigh. Another reason to get a job in Europe.
-
- ...but not in the UK, where, according to the BBC and ITV, most
- people prefer P&S (!!??) Yes it's true folks, here in the good old UK,
- people think that they are being cheated if the picture doesn't fill
- all the TV screen (and we thought the Americans were mad! :-) ).
-
- Channel 4 show approx. 60% of it's films in widescreen now (but not
- 2.35-1), which is at least progress. BBC2 show the odd one now and
- again, however, BBC1 and ITV, do not intend showing widescreen films
- in the near future (see previous paragraph).
-
- Dave.
- : boris
-