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Obama looks like Blanka on European TV's. Is he black or green?

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richms:
Over here all the big free stations are 16:9 - either SD on sat or HD for most on dvb-t

US sourced content is just pillarboxed for the 4:3 stuff like the crap talk shows and stuff, so that means that I end up with it with 3" of black all around it on the bedroom 4:3 CRT unless I go into the menus and change it to centre cut. Seems stupid that they still are either making shows in 4:3 or sending it overseas like that. Even BBC world has finally moved to 16:9 for their stuff.

Sky is another matter - loads of channels are still 4:3 and showing letterboxed stuff, luckily they are tagged as 4:3 so if you set your box to letterbox then those channels will go fullscreen, but quality is so bad because bitrates are so low. I gave up on it since I only really watched the channels like discovery and CI where the shows look better out of a 350 meg divx and I get to see them sooner that way too ;)

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on January 21, 2009, 11:32:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Subject: ---Is he black or green?
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--- Quote from: Obama ---Now Senator McCain suggests that somehow, you know, I'm green behind the ears.
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 :laugh2:

your quote fu is mighty

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Blanka on January 21, 2009, 09:12:57 am ---Guess the subtitles were added live. Maybe they can delay the picture 5 seconds in the studio, so a live translator can do it on the fly, but seriously, I thought the translation was really crap. Especially in the end when Obama started to use college English there were big black spots in the translation.

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well, i suppose they do something like that in diplomatic circles, like the UN. they have to translate on the fly. incidentally, our prime minister was a translator (of chinese) at the UN at one stage...

daywane:
I think he is green

Level42:
I don't care what color he is, I want Bush back ! Since Obama's inauguration the dollar has risen .........booohhhhh !!!!


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