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EPG had it listed as HD and the picture quality was good.
Did the BBC produce HD programs in HD at 4:3 ?
Odd it wasn’t widescreen using new tech for that period.

It was upscaled from standard definition. Upscaled SD can look surprisingly good when it's not being chewed up by ancient MPEG-2 encoding, but it's not comparable to true HD - this programme was around eight years early for that. As for widescreen - 16:9 was starting to come onto the scene at around this time, wasn't it? How late was the BBC still making 4:3 shows?

From discussions on the previous places it's been said that on the BBC pretty much everything went widescreen between 1998 and 2001. One of the last holdouts was TOTP which changed in October 2001 when they moved back from Elstree to TVC. After that only Parkinson was produced in the ratio for BBC 1. TOTP2 was produced in 4:3 as well for BBC 2 due to the archive nature. After that the only things in 4:3 were foreign imports or Sport. BBC Sport studio segments were produced in widescreen, but the match footage was shot so that the world feed could be 4:3 centre cut out. As late as 2004 the Olympics world feed was only 4:3 for example.