Central 1998 idents in widescreen

[VMPhil]

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.

On the old TV Home site many years ago, it said that the last set of celebrity idents were made in widescreen, but only ever shown in 14:9 - probably because that’s all Channel 5’s playout had.

It reminds me that the 2006 BBC One idents were announced in the press release as being shot in high definition - but we only ever saw them as SD upscaled (they updated the text/logo animation on them to HD, but the footage was definitely still upscaled).