scott wrote:
>> Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts 
>> [not that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me 
>> mum insists on watching.)
> 
> Ermm, what TV signal do you receive?  From radiotimes.co.uk for this 
> evening:
> 
> 18:00 News, widescreen
> 18:30 Regional news, widescreen
> 19:00 The One Show, widescreen
> 19:30 EastEnders, widescreen
> 20:00 Holby City, widescreen
> 
> or perhaps some sport on BBC2?
> 
> 19:00 Snooker, widescreen
> 20:00 Speaker, widescreen
> 21:00 Cruickshank on Kew, widescreen
> 
> or football on ITV?
> 
> 19:30 CHampions League, widescreen
> 22:00 ITV News at Ten and WEATHER, widescreen
> 
> It seems to me like *every* program is widescreen.

Interesting. I *watched* the snooker, and it didn't appear to be in 
widescreen. (Or maybe that's just FreeSat?)

>> Personally, I just avoid watching TV at all. Watching the adverts is 
>> like being on a bad acid trip (I'm not kidding!), and most of the 
>> programs are rubbish these days anyway...
> 
> I tend to mostly watch sport and the news, not much else, luckily all of 
> that is widescreen so I never notice any problem :-)

There seems to be a great lack of the sciency type of programs I like 
these days. We used to have great shows like Rough Science, Scrapheap 
Challenge, Local Heroes, Horizon, BBC Wildlife, etc. Now there's just 
Brainiac... which is rather lame.

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