{"id":95413,"date":"2014-01-24T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=95413"},"modified":"2014-01-24T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:09:43","slug":"supersport-sd-going-widescreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/95413-supersport-sd-going-widescreen.html","title":{"rendered":"SuperSport SD going widescreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Tuesday, 4 February 2014, <a title=\"SuperSport\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/389603-SuperSport\">SuperSport<\/a> will switch its standard definition (SD) channels over to the 16:9 aspect ratio, also known as widescreen format, <a title=\"MultiChoice\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216214-MultiChoice\">MultiChoice<\/a> announced in a press release on Friday, 24 January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-over brings these SD channels in line with international broadcasting trends and with other channels on the <a title=\"DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/383647-DStv\">DStv<\/a> platform, MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers on older TVs that don\u2019t support widescreen format will be able to switch to 16:9 letterbox mode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will display the full 16:9 image on your 4:3 screen with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen,\u201d MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n<p>Letterbox mode is available by pressing <em>Shift<\/em> on the DStv remote, selecting <em>Arc<\/em>, and then choosing 16:9 letterbox. You can also use make the change from the <em>Menu<\/em> on your decoder, MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More SA broadcasting news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/95205-dstv-android-tablet-in-the-works-sources.html\"><strong>DStv Android tablet in the works: sources<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/95169-digital-tv-in-sa-faces-further-setback-sacf.html\"><strong>Digital TV in SA faces further setback: SACF<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/95157-digital-tv-decoders-in-sa-must-all-support-encryption-sacf.html\"><strong>Digital TV decoders in SA must all support encryption: SACF<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/95025-new-dstv-vod-services-launched.html\"><strong>New DStv VOD services launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/94849-starsat-technical-problems-explained.html\"><strong>StarSat technical problems explained<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has announced a change in format for SuperSport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,85,475,23307,3516,23309],"class_list":["post-95413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-dstv","tag-multichoice","tag-standard-definition-sd","tag-supersport","tag-widescreen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95417,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95413\/revisions\/95417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}