[Dadeki]

Whilst we're on the topic, here's an item from Points of View that was broadcast in March 1998 about the BBC transmitting an evening of its programmes in 14:9, as an experiment for the upcoming digital service that was to launch later that year.

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Also, here's a very interesting comment from the video that was posted by Chris Wathen about the issues facing the implementation of widescreen:

Part of it was trying to do widescreen too soon which made the transition period longer than it needed to be and as a result handling it poorly, as we iterated through various different cludges on the journey. Widescreen CRT TVs were in practice delivered by making the picture shorter in order to make it wider rather than actually giving you more picture; you couldn't buy any widescreen CRT with the same height in the picture as larger 4:3 sizes. Cludges like rear projection were around for a while but it wasn't until the move to flat panel that widescreen TVs genuinely larger than a large 4:3 set became affordably available.

Then the start of widescreen transmissions were [sic] done before digital broadcasting which could only result in a lower quality broadcast; any form of widescreen transmitted through the existing analogue terrestrial system simply plonked black bars onto the existing 4:3 frame cutting part of it off to make it widescreen. Viewers on a 4:3 set thus lost part of their picture whilst even viewers on a widescreen set were then just zooming in to a part of the picture to make it fill their their screen but either way you now had lower resolution than watching 4:3. Then when it came to production for several years it was common to record in 16:9 but framed for 14:9 but with 4:3 safe graphics. Regardless of whether you had a widescreen or a 4:3 set, or analogue or digital, or any combination thereof, it was a cludge.