Talk:14:9 aspect ratio

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That format is also particularly convenient on 16:9 screens when broadcast as 4:3. I believe most widescreen TVs have a "zooming" mode called "Super 4:3", which zooms to 14:9 and streches the image to fill the whole screen. That's the only decent mode for watching 4:3 broadcasts. The image is slightly deformed, but not so much that it would be annoying, and a small part of it is cropped. With 14:9 programs broadcast as 4:3 however, as is the case with BBC World and Al Jazeera English, the image is equally streched, but not cropped.

UK Digital Switchover
So will we no longer use the 14:9 aspect ration in the UK when the switch to digital happens? Surely then we will be able to tell our receiving equipment whether we want the picture delivered to our TV sets in 4:3 or 16:9. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

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--JeffGBot (talk) 05:11, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Shows produced in 14:9
This is lacking "reliable sources", so I'm putting it here for reference in case someone can find better citations. The article now says "Note that 14:9 is not a shooting format; 14:9 material is almost always derived from either a 16:9 or 4:3 shot"

This is not completely true.

Some BBC shows made in the late 90s were produced in 14:9. At least the DVD releases are in that format, either letterboxed in 4:3 or pillarboxed in 16:9. In neither case is this correctly described on the box, they just say "widescreen".

Examples: 3rd season of Hamish Macbeth (TV series) in 1997. (First 2 seasons were 4:3.) See screencaps. Or Looking After Jo Jo, 1998. You can see clips from this on Youtube.

With the current fetish for filling the screen, shows of this period are often distorted to 16:9 when shown "widescreen". 202.81.249.30 (talk) 04:40, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

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Article seriously out of date
This article talks about 14:9 as something current, when in reality it's history, as most broadcasters have been transmitting in 16:9 for several years by now. So it should be updated and talk about 14:9 as a historic aspect ratio from the years when half or more of the viewers were using 4:3 TVs. As I haven't been involved in the aspect ratio articles and don't know enough about the subject, I think it's best if somone else takes on this job. Thomas Blomberg (talk) 15:03, 15 August 2021 (UTC)