OT Sky Widescreen Movies

["Andy Bovingdon" <bov@xxxxxxx>]

Ok, so I have been getting more and more pissed off with Sky over their
widescreen channels no longer showing movies in their true aspect
ratio, instead cropping them to fit a 16x9 screen.

So I emailed them to ask what the hell was going on. Their reply pissed
me off even more. So I'm forwarding it to this group. If anyone feels
as
strongly about this as I do, can I suggest that you send an email to
both
editor@xxxxxxx and ViewerR@xxxxxxx to complain also.

I'm now going to look at dropping Sky Movies and simply buy more
DVD's with the spare money.


> Dear Andy
>
> Thank you for your e-mail about Sky Movies Widescreen.
>
> I note your comments contained in your e-mail and regret to learn of
your
> disappointment.  There is a great deal of misinformation about
widescreen
> and I thought I should clarify exactly what we are doing. Widescreen
means
> that a film is in a 16.9 format for a widescreen TV set. This means
that
> films originally shot in a wider format eg 2.35:1 will be shown in
a
> suitable format for 16:9. This gives viewers greater width than they
see
on
> a standard 4:3 TV set but the film will have been panned and scanned
to
pick
> up any relevant action which might have fallen outside the centre
screen.
>
> On our widescreen channels we show films in a 16:9 format which
will
provide
> the full height and a wider picture. We do not show or advertise that
we
> show films in their original cinema aspect ratio because we do not
show
> 'letterboxed' widescreen versions. There may be some occasions in
the
future
> when we may do this but we also have to consider how these films
would
look
> to a customer watching on a 4:3 set as the picture would be tiny.
Many
films
> fall within the 16:9 range (ie being 1.75 or 1.85) and it is only
scoped
> films in 2.1:1 or wider which need to be panned and scanned.
>
> I hope you will continue to use the service as you will certainly see
more
> of the original picture than you will on a 4:3 screen but in the case
of
> 2.10:1 or 2.35:1 'scoped' pictures there will be some panning and
> scanning.
>
> Thank you for your continued interest in Sky.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Keith Dixon
> Viewer Relations

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