[Neil Jones]

I caught the back end of Peak Practice today (Couldn't tell you which era, though it had the ITV 2001/2 ECP style credits) and that was widescreen but it had been zoomed in for no obvious reason and what I saw of the show (I've never seen Peak Practice so I haven't a clue what was going on with the storyline) the whole operation like a horrible blurry mess.

I wonder, because by 2001/2 we would be into the "shot in 16:9 but protected for 14:9" era, they've somehow (so far as Peak Practice is concerned) ended up with something intended for 14:9 and its been zoomed to get ride of the black bars you'd have seen, although how that would even happen is beyond me.

That wouldn't apply to older content like Upper Hand, which because of its age is purely 4:3 videotape, but speaking of the Hand, the episode that went out today managed to keep the tale of the lower case P in "Central Independent Television PLC"'s copyright strap on the screen in full as opposed to being chopped off on previous episodes so I'd like to think somebody has started to cottoned on...