good to see one of my fav movies, METEOR on, but heck it's on late (i'll see when STV has it on) and it will be in 16x9 (as in it's previous showing)

pity it's DISGRACEFUL dvd release was in 4x3
practically threw the damn case back down when i excitedely picked it up!!!

METEOR might not be playing on ITV 1 in all regions, so best to check your listings magazines. And ya never know about the aspect ratio - ITV have pulled a few surprises out of the hat lately, so never say never!!

By the way, I don't have the Radio Times to hand, but whatever the AR, the film might be playing in a signed version.

OPERATION CROSSBOW was on C4 today in 2.35:1. 5USA showed it a few weeks ago in 16:9.

And, naturally, that's a title I managed NOT to include in my previous listings. Thank god for that! For a minute there, I thought I might actually go a week without stuffing something up!!...

2.35:1 movies across the Freeview platform next week (16 - 22 July):


Saturday (16 July)

• THE ASTRONAUT FARMER (5 USA)
• EVELYN (BBC 2)
• HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] (ITV 1)
• HELLFIGHTERS (5 USA)
• IRON MAN (Film 4)
• JOE KIDD (5 USA)
• KIDULTHOOD (BBC 3)
• KING SOLOMON'S MINES (Film 4)
• THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (5 Star)
• MARLEY & ME (C4)
• TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (ITV 2)
• TWISTER (ITV 2)
• UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION (ITV 4)


Sunday (17 July)

• THE ASTRONAUT FARMER (5 USA)
• AUSTRALIA (C4)
• A COCK AND BULL STORY (BBC 2)
• CREATION (BBC 2)
• THE DEPARTED (Film 4)
• IN THE LINE OF FIRE (Channel 5)
• THE ISLAND (ITV 4)
• LOST IN SPACE 9Channel 5)
• RAW DEAL (ITV 4)
• STARDUST (Film 4)
• STAR TREK: GENERATIONS (E4)
• TOP GUN (E4)
• WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL (Film 4)


Monday (18 July)

• FLASH POINT [導火線] (Film 4)
• SADDLE THE WIND (C4)
• SMOKIN' ACES (ITV 1)


Tuesday (19 July)

• CRASH (Film 4)
• DRAGOON WELLS MASSACRE (Film 4)
• GUNS AT BATASI (Film 4)
• SUDDEN DEATH (ITV 4)
• SUDDEN IMPACT (5 USA)
• WITHOUT A PADDLE (Film 4)


Wednesday (20 July)

• ALEXANDER (ITV 2)
• KEEPING MUM (Film 4)
• THE MAN WHO SUED GOD (Channel 5)
• RAW DEAL (ITV 4)
• THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (Film 4)
• THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (Film 4) [2.55:1]


Thursday (21 July)

• 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER (Film 4)
• HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (Film 4)
• IRON MAN (Film 4)
• JAWS (ITV 4)
• TOP GUN (E4)
• THE WARRIOR (Film 4)


Friday (22 July)

• THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA (Film 4) [2.55:1]
• BLADE RUNNER (BBC 2)
• BLOOD ALLEY (C4) [2.55:1]
• DOLORES CLAIBORNE (ITV 3)
• FAR NORTH (Film 4)
• FLASH GORDON (ITV 1)
• HOSTAGE (Film 4)
• JAWS (ITV 4)
• JAWS 2 (ITV 4)
• THE LAST BOY SCOUT (ITV 1)
• THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (More 4) [2.55:1]
• S1MØNE (Film 4)
• THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (Film 4) [2.55:1]
• TWO FOR THE MONEY (BBC 1)
• URBAN LEGEND (5 Star)
• WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL (Film 4)

Add Finding Nemo on Channel5 - airing now in OAR...

Finding Nemo is 1.85:1.

Hardly surprising when it's a premiere and in HD. Doesn't really matter does it, it has to be in 2.35:1 for us to want to talk/know about it in this thread.

Channel 5 are currently showing Lost in Space OAR but it looks like a bad NTSC conversion though as you can see the judder when the camera pans. Strange, they must've only had access to a 60hz source for OAR.

A COCK AND BULL STORY and CREATION also 'premiered' at 2.35:1 on the dear old Beeb yesterday. ACABS has been shown before in 16:9 (CREATION was screening for the first time), so this would have been a treat for fans.

Actually ACABS has been shown in 2.35:1 before--around August 2009 or earlier. Possibly again since then as well?

Hadn't seen ACABS before, but while it was good to see it in 2.35:1, it was a bit of a mess all round. I much preferred The Trip.

I coulda swore this was 16:9 on previous broadcasts. For the first time in my life, I'm probably wrong again...

There you go--note the lack of DOG.Those were the days!

I noticed the rather bad picture for Lost In Space myself. Sky and Channel 5 have both shown a very bad NTSC transfer of Rush Hour as well with very blurry picture. You'd think someone would have noticed it when it was being doine and corrected it.

See how right I was about being wrong?

I just keep getting craftier with age...

2.35:1 movies across the Freeview platform next week (23 - 29 July):


Saturday (23 July)

• CARS (BBC 1)
• CHEYENNE AUTUMN (Channel 5) [2.21:1]
• DOGMA (E4)
• DOLORES CLAIBORNE (ITV 3)
• EAGLE EYE (BBC 1)
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (ITV 1)
• THE HIDE (Film 4)
• HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME (BBC 1)
• JAWS III [Jaws 3-D] (ITV 4)
• JAWS 2 (ITV 4)
• KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (C4)
• LAKE PLACID (Film 4)
• MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (5 USA)
• NO RESERVATIONS (ITV 2)
• RED DRAGON (ITV 2)
• SILVERADO (Channel 5)
• S1MØNE (Film 4)
• STRANGE WILDERNESS (Film 4)
• SUDDEN IMPACT (5 USA)


Sunday (24 July)

• ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING (Film 4)
• CRASH (Film 4)
• JAWS III [Jaws 3-D] (ITV 4)
• THE LOVELY BONES (Film 4)
• THE MUMMY (ITV 2)
• MUST LOVE DOGS (ITV 2)
• OCEAN'S THIRTEEN (ITV 1)
• THE OMEGA MAN (Channel 5)
• THE ONE (Channel 5)
• SERAPHIM FALLS (BBC 2)
• STAR TREK: INSURRECTION (E4)
• TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (Channel 5)
• TIN CUP (ITV 3)


Monday (25 July)

• ALEXANDER (ITV 2)
• EVER AFTER (Film 4)
• FIRST BLOOD (ITV 4)
• THE JACKET (ITV 1)
• MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (Film 4)
• RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (ITV 4)
• THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS (Channel 5)
• STUCK ON YOU (Film 4)
• SWORDFISH (Channel 5)
• THE TALL STRANGER (Film 4)
• TORPEDO RUN (C4)


Tuesday (26 July)

• 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER (Film 4)
• DEATHWATCH (Film 4)
• GOMORRAH [Gomorra] (BBC 2)
• RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (ITV 4)•
• RAMBO III (ITV 4)
• RED DRAGON (ITV 2)
• THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (Film 4)
• WHITE FEATHER (Film 4) [2.55:1]


Wednesday (27 July)

• BLADE: TRINITY (Film 4)
• THE GAUNTLET (ITV 4)
• MASH (Film 4)
• MUST LOVE DOGS (ITV 2)
• PANIC ROOM (Channel 5)
• PILLOW TALK (ITV 1)
• RAMBO III (ITV 4)


Thursday (28 July)

• 23 PACES TO BAKER STREET (Film 4)
• ALIEN³ (Film 4)
• ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING (Film 4)
• THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA (Film 4)
• HOSTAGE (Film 4)
• SPECIES (ITV 4)


Friday (29 July)

• 2046 (Film 4)
• APPALOOSA (More 4)
• THE FAMILY MAN (Film 4)
• THE TALL STRANGER (Film 4)
• TIN CUP (ITV 3)
• UNLEASHED [Danny the Dog] (ITV 1)
• WIND CHILL (5 Star)

Cars was cropped to 16:9 at Christmas or whenever it was premiered. The trailer's in 16:9 again, too, so I doubt things will change.

It will be 2.35:1 on BBC ONE HD but will more than likely be cropped for BBC ONE SD. If you're gonna watch or record it, I know which one I'd choose...!

Wonder if The Last Boy Scout tonight on ITV 1 will be in 2.35:1?

They may have opted for the US tv version which would be edited .
This might enable them to show the film in various slots including daytime like some channels like to do with Beverley Hills Cop

Currently on ITV3 in OAR

The Last Boy Scout on ITV 1 has been cropped to 16:9.

They used to do that, but a year or two back, BBC1 HD (or BBC HD, as I don't think they had BBC1 HD at the time), showed the same 16:9-cropped print of Snake Eyes being broadcast on BBC1, yet still claiming to be in HD.


16:9. It's one of my favourite action films, too. Joe Hallenbeck is 10 times more cool than John McClane. And it's one of Tony Scott's best before he started hiring that waste of space Denzil Washington for every other film he made, a man who can't act his way out of a paper bag.

Don't forget BLADE RUNNER, screened for the second time in 2.35:1 on BBC 2 last night (Friday)...

Dunno about the HD channel, but CARS appeared on the standard-def version at 16:9. Boo, hiss, etc.

By contrast, CHEYENNE AUTUMN was screened on Channel 5 at a fair approximation of the original 70mm / 2.21:1 ratio.

Yep, 16:9 on BBC1HD too. I saw about 10 mins of it as my nephew was watching it while I was at my sister's house, and I was wondering whether they would've made a separate 16:9 version for some very brief scenes featuring text, as when the opening race was on there was various pieces of text onscreen that, had one been watching in the cinema it would no doubt have been placed at the edges of the screen otherwise it'd just look odd (a bit like watching a 16:9 programme with all the text in the 4:3 centre area)


I missed that but it's on again next Saturday, a bit earlier, at 10.45am.