Trace Wide Screen

[revorushin]

I noticed that while watching Trace today, Dstv made a bit of a boo boo and sent out the signal the way they got it. Thats okay but this time the image was zoomed out so I took a ruler and measured the video part of the screen and what do you know, after a few calculating I see that the channel is wide screen. Dstv said that they receive over eight channels in wide screen but they don't distribute it to us in wide screen. Anyone know why?

 

[tsume]

There have been complains on Trace's video quality. I just so happened to be channel hoping between the music channels and noticed that was totally wrong I also came to that conclusion that trace is actually suppose to be in 16:9 ratio.

 

[K T]

When you see a video in "skinny" format (where everybody in the video looks stretched vertically) you can change your TV to picture size to 16:9 and it will be wide screen with normal aspect ratio. In other words, everybody wont look fat.

Personally I cannot stand watching a normal signal in wide screen, or the other way around. So I'm always changing the picture size on my TV.

 

[tsume]

If you watch Trace you'll notice how the pictures seems pixalated as if your watching Youtube, so yep dstv are poorly strechting the transmission.

Sorry revorushin forgot to answer your original question. Why some channels are not broadcast in widescreen while the international broadcast are widescreen has been that when the broadcast rights contract was signed it specified to broadcast 4:3 ratio and will only change with the renewel of contracts (remeber reading this on the dstv forum). Now why Trace is also 4:3 is questionable because it was introduced after the HD-PVR, same goes for Discovery World.