From: No@no.com   
      
   It's not a 'trick'... that's just how it's done for film... because 35mm   
   film is not 16:9 ratio.   
      
   I don't know enough about HD cameras to know how they work, but likely they   
   recorded 16:9 to 'archives', while cropping the outgoing feed before HD.   
      
   MY only question there is how they managed to get the rerun to have the   
   Remote segment fullscreen - it wasn't 4:3 in the little box like when Conan   
   did the 'here's what we looked like before' (still with black bars on top   
   and bottom and then on the sides as well). It was real fullscreen the whole   
   size. That should mean that they actually went back and changed the show   
   because if they saved all the shows in 16:9 and just reaired it, the remote   
   would be in the smaller square with black all around.   
      
   "lugnut"  wrote in message   
   news:4278f7a4.516875@news.netins.net...   
   > On Wed, 4 May 2005 01:19:02 -0400, "Bozo McCool"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>Yes, they have had the HD Cameras for something like a year or two... the   
   >>break in April was supposedly to gut the control room and upgrade it to be   
   >>able to broadcast HD...   
   >>   
   >>But I'm not sure how they were able to record the show in HD with the old   
   >>control room or why they need to gut the control room only to broadcast,   
   >>not   
   >>to record.   
   >>   
   >>Actually, I'm not even sure if the rerun WAS broadcast HD... or whether it   
   >>was just widescreen. I don't know which it was, though I suspect they   
   >>didn't   
   >>make the camera switch at the same time as the control room, among other   
   >>reasons, to build a library of reruns they could show in HD when they   
   >>finally switched. I suppose the question is whether the remotes from now   
   >>on   
   >>will be shot with HD cams, or just widescreened to fit the format (or if   
   >>they will do that at all)   
   >   
   > Pardon my HD ignorance on this one, but here goes.   
   >   
   > I know sometimes theatrical movies are shot in a native 4:3 aspect   
   > ratio, then "matted" off at the top and bottom for theatrical   
   > showings.  Does the same 'trick' work for HDTV showings?   
   >   
   > -lugnut   
      
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