Over the hills and far away in alt.tv.malcolm-in-themiddle, Santa Claws
came to play...
>>> > Well, they might be, but they are shot to be shown on American TV
>>> > and we don't use the widescreen format on the telly here. So you
>>> > wouldn't be missing anything even if the show is shot widescreen.
>
> Season 4 was widescreen on HDTV, I watched a few over at a friends
> house. It looked pretty good.
Season 4 is currently being shown in widescreen on Sky One here. This is
quite a revolution given that Sky One show 99.9% of their programmes in
4x3.
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> I really don't figure a widescreen version of the pilot would look so
> bad, and I suspect the problems they had were worst with the pilot. I
> would be surprised if they didn't have it worked out pretty quickly.
True.
> I would have liked to see the season 1 DVD in widescreen despite the
> problems, and still hope they go widescreen for season 2.
Let's hope they do. I'm convinced season 2 was shown in widescreen on
BBC2. Even for season 1, I seem to remember that being in widescreen too,
although it's entirely possible they showed the pilot in 4x3.
> I know they are showing season 3 in widescreen in the UK, I am getting
> recordings of that on DVDR. No Fox logo, they play the full end
> credits. The quality is pretty good.
Yes, this is true. The BBC do come good with stuff like this from time to
time. Full widescreen, and no evil logo/DOG. The only thing they do add to
the end credits is a website URL, which they didn't do for season 2's
credits. Occasionally they will talk over the credits too, which is rather
annoying.
It's on tonight: episode 3.17, Dewey's Dog, followed by 3.18, Poker #2.
Sound like decent episodes.
Eddie
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