Is it me or are a lot of programs not transmitted in widescreen on sky digital?
I have just bought a dvd recorder and was starting to collect some sci-fi episodes (farscape, andromeda etc) and I have just noticed that they are not in widescreen (hitting the info button shows the W missing from the info box)
Is anyone else finding this or is my decoder not set up correct?
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Well a lot of SKY programs are not widescreen - but you will know that without the DVD recorder.... The problem is with a DVD recorder & Sky is that the DVD Recoder will recorder the 16:9 material in 4:3 anyway. Have a look a snippet from another post in this:
I did a test recording from sky+. Whilst the sky+ was outputing 16:9 the recording was 4:3. In fact it was anamorphically squashed side to side so that if the TV was set to 16:9 it looked ok but all the flags in the IFO & VOBs were 4:3. This is not a major problem but very frustrating as i have to take the DVD to the PC to sort it out with IfoEdit if i intend to give the DVD to someone with a 4:3 TV... Anyway is this just the way it is or am i missing something?
Also the 4kus does not perform widescreen switching. I have it set up to output 16:9, i have the TV set up to switch & i have good scart cables. Even with widescreen retail DVDs the dvd player does not switch the TV to 16:9 - i have to do this manually. Is this a known issue?SVCD2DVD v2.5, AVI/MPEG/HDTV/AviSynth/h264->DVD, PAL->NTSC conversion.
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From what i understand the issue is more sky's fault than the DVD Recorder (WSS on the scart not on the signal).
Anyway do the IfoEdit trick to have it playback properly.SVCD2DVD v2.5, AVI/MPEG/HDTV/AviSynth/h264->DVD, PAL->NTSC conversion.
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