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Darth telly
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Teletubbies Roku Channel Preservation (not yet started) (Help Needed)
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Date created
12-Mar-2022, 9:15 PM

WaltWiz1901 said:

From what I’ve heard, Teletubbies was one of the first children’s shows shot in high-definition (though I could be wrong on that and it might’ve merely been shot and edited on standard PAL video [with conversion to NTSC for American broadcast]). Are the Roku transfers HD (as the YouTube transfers undoubtedly are)?

One other thing to note is that WildBrain has a habit of tweaking the aspect ratio whenever they post something to YouTube (like squeezing a 16:9 show to 4:3, as I’ve seen on some Boohbah uploads). While I don’t doubt that the later episodes may have been 16:9 from the get-go, I’m wondering if the earlier episodes were native 4:3 or 16:9 cropped or stretched to 4:3…

They look SD to me. I know that at least the beginning of the show was shot in SD, and the BBC didn’t shoot much in HD until around 2010, But it is definitely possible that it was shot in HD.

So what wild brain did to the aspect ratio was they slightly cropped the tops and bottoms, made it open matte (not to 16:9, to just an ever so slightly wider aspect ratio), then stretched the image the rest of the way. It only being slightly wider and cropped on the top and bottom makes me think that it was probably originally 4:3. The color is also changed to be more appealing to small children on the youtube postings.

Here are the links and you can have a look.

Here is the live airing (the teletubbies channel)
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/ac7f693bcdd55f72aca62df031a73b52/teletubbies

Here are the streaming on demand episodes.
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/d1270d33630156a4b850788f2e6df990/teletubbies