Monday, September 24, 2012

The SABC's flagship daily news bulletin, News @ 7 on SABC3, changes its aspect ratio to the letterbox screen format.


The SABC's flagship daily news bulletin, the English language News @ 7 on SABC3 weekdays at 19:00, has just quietly changed to a 16:9 or so-called letterbox broadcast.

The SABC's news bulletin on SABC2, Nuus om 7 also changed to 16:9.

Of course no word from the SABC or SABC News about the aspect ratio change - or why. The bulletin broadcasts are now artificially squashed from the top and bottom to force it into a 16:9 format.