13-05-2021, 09:34 PM
I'm one of the people who actually noticed all the adverts and trailers were in 16:9 (well, 14:9 anyway as we didn't have digital at that point) from that date... even ones which were in 4:3 before then. Shows how geeky I was even then, I imagine the vast majority didn't pick up on it.
I might be wrong, but weren't Channel 4's idents always in 16:9 right from the 1999 revamp? They were certainly in 14:9 at least. They did have trailers in 4:3 up until July 2000 though. Discounting the idents they used before pre-school programming anyway (which IIRC were rebranded T4 idents), which was in 4:3 right up until they stopped using them in 2004.
Channel 5 on the other hand still had their presentation in 4:3 (I think many of the idents were shown in 14:9 during the last year or so, but still in a 4:3 frame) until the spring 2002 mini-revamp.
I might be wrong, but weren't Channel 4's idents always in 16:9 right from the 1999 revamp? They were certainly in 14:9 at least. They did have trailers in 4:3 up until July 2000 though. Discounting the idents they used before pre-school programming anyway (which IIRC were rebranded T4 idents), which was in 4:3 right up until they stopped using them in 2004.
Channel 5 on the other hand still had their presentation in 4:3 (I think many of the idents were shown in 14:9 during the last year or so, but still in a 4:3 frame) until the spring 2002 mini-revamp.