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  • Sky News to broadcast in widescreen

    April 11 2009 8:47am (UTC+8)  -  Article by Kevin

    UPDATED | Sky News - Australia's only locally produced 24 hour news channel - is finally preparing to broadcast in 16:9 widescreen.

    Australian-Media.com.au understands the expected date for the aspect ratio change is Sunday, May 17 2009 (revised date - see update below) however that date may be pushed back if internal preparations take longer to complete than expected.

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  • Mister Man
    April 11 2009
    9:25am
    #1 of 11

    I would like to hope they bought HD capable equipment considering SD is going the way of the dinosaur.

  • Kevin
    April 11 2009
    9:35am
    #2 of 11

    Mister Man said:
    I would like to hope they bought HD capable equipment considering SD is going the way of the dinosaur.

    Common sense would suggest everything would be HD-ready (or close to it) now. They are crazy if they bought SD-only equipment :helpsmilie:

    Will be interesting to see how long it takes for Sky News to broadcast in HD. Most news in Australia is still SD though so I don't see Sky News jumping on board with HD just yet.

  • Jeffmister
    April 11 2009
    9:55am
    #3 of 11

    It's about time, finally Sky News in widescreen! :)

    Although, would there be a re-launch (graphics wise) to collide with the introduction of widescreen broadcasting?

  • Kevin
    April 11 2009
    10:05am
    #4 of 11

    Jeffmister said:
    Although, would there be a re-launch (graphics wise) to collide with the introduction of widescreen broadcasting?

    Depends on whether the last round of graphics were widescreen-ready. It is possible they could launch without a single graphics change if they did it right last time, but we'll have to wait and see whether that was the case or not.

    That said, they may choose to launch new graphics as well if they want to make a big deal about the AR change :)

  • phileasmann
    April 11 2009
    4:21pm
    #5 of 11

    Jeffmister said:
    Although, would there be a re-launch (graphics wise) to collide with the introduction of widescreen broadcasting?

    God, I hope! If the current ticker is going to be transitioned to 16:9, it's going to look crap!

    They need to utilize the space 16:9 offers with the ticker....

  • Kevin
    April 12 2009
    1:20am
    #6 of 11

    I have updated the article to say the change will include Sky News, Sky News Business Channel, A-PAC and Sky News New Zealand :)

  • dude
    April 15 2009
    10:02pm
    #7 of 11

    Kevin said:
    Sky News - Australia's only locally produced 24 hour news channel - is finally preparing to broadcast in 16:9 widescreen.

    Hoo-fucking-ray :clapping:

  • Smacca
    April 16 2009
    12:48am
    #8 of 11

    I wonder if the overnight UK feed will be in wide too?

  • Kevin
    April 20 2009
    12:15pm
    #9 of 11

    According to Knowfirst, this has been delayed until at least May 17th. It's obviously taking them some time to get everything organised.

  • phileasmann
    April 25 2009
    8:53pm
    #10 of 11

    Oh, God. And I was getting soooo excited...

  • Jeffmister
    April 26 2009
    9:53am
    #11 of 11

    Smacca said:
    I wonder if the overnight UK feed will be in wide too?

    It won't be - Sky News UK's international feed is 4:3.


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