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Comedy Channel goin’ widescreen, no foolin’
The Comedy Channel will switch to widescreen on April Fool's Day, April 1st.
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The Comedy Channel will switch to widescreen on April Fool’s Day, April 1st.
“Mark it in your diaries and rev up your blogs – The Comedy Channel is set to commence 16.9 widscreen transmission from Thursday April 1 at 5.30am. And no, it’s not an April Fools joke. Promise. Unless something goes horribly wrong. Nahhhh, she’ll be appples. Wider apples,” says its website.
This week the channel also gets into the spirit of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, of which it is a Festival Partner.
At 9pm on Thursday the channel screens Australia’s Funniest, a one hour guide to the picks the festival, and at 10pm anarchic Canadian comedian Tom Green selects his festival favourites in Tom Green’s Best Of the Fest.
Source: Comedy Channel
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28 Responses
Took their sweet time.
It’s only 2010 !!!!
Does anyone else think Comedy pulled their finger out because ABC2 has started showing Colbert and Stewart every night in Widescreen.
Yay! Thanks Foxtel and Comedy.
now bring on TV1, and i’ll be extatic! long overdue!
Funny how On Demand or Foxtel First Arena is in WS… not the actual channel tho….
@Reubot – I’ll have to check that, last time I looked it was still side black bars, but that could have been the program.
Either way they all should be 16:9, this is 2010 isn’t it?
Craig, I thought History went widescreen in the past week or two?
(Only going off what others have said though – I don’t have it)
TV1 and Hallmark will be 16:9 in mid year, Arena confirmed for June 1.
I’m still waiting for Arena, TV1, Discovery (not the HD one), History, Hallmark and a few others.
We want More Kids and Music Channels.
About f—in time…
good to see more channels going widescreen recently. top of my list now is tv1( it used to be esnp)
Now we just need Arena and Discovery to join in.
All widescreen content that comes from the US is also available in HD because for some reason over there 16×9 is hd only. It’s time for The HD Comedy Channel.
Yes about time!
As for HD well there is no point for those of us without a HD tunes but I guess it means they will now be able to add a HD version in the future?
about time……
noticed last week that History was widescreen now as well…..
again a mention of blogs what they have been reading perhaps and if not the pressure maybe they wouldn’t have given advanced notice. Good news all the same also good they mentioned a specific time.
Finally.
Finally! Welcome to the widescreen age Comedy.
Hopefully they air all their 16:9 shows in true format then, and not have a 4:3 version still running. When Will and Grace went to 111 Hits, rather than showing it in true 16:9 for the final few seasons, it was played at 14:9 on a widescreen channel.
As someone who last subscribed to Foxtel well over a decade ago, I have to marvel… they weren’t 16:9 already??? Wow. I guess while the source broadcasters for the majority of their material have pretty much all gone HD, Comedy Channel viewers can hope for that to happen sometime in the year 2525.
Very exciting… about time!
Why didn’t they just take the plunge and go HD?
Most of their US content is avail in HD now.
It’s about freakin’ time.