Re: I was finally horrified by one of norm's finishes
- From: Greg G.<GregG@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:29:53 -0500
Larry Bud said:
Now don't get too excited and run out and buy one of those bug
infested HDTV receivers just yet.
LOL!
Yeah, the Superbowl in HD was AWFUL (rolling eyes!).
I wouldn't know - who wants, or has time, to sit in front of the tube
for 3 hours? What I do know is that more money is spent on eye-candy
and tweaking the HDTV broadcasts of football games in the US than any
other material, because that's what sells TVs, gas-grills, 6 bladed
razors and $200B in Chinese imports. Inexplicably, sports broadcasts
are the premiere example of the medium.
But there are issues with HDTV at this point in time.
glaring A/V Sync problems, gross artifacts from mangled bit streams
and MPEG2 encoding, lockups in confused digital equipment, etc.
Consumer response has been tepid at best, and most early adopters of
this technology, like most others, pay a premium for the privilege of
working the bugs out.
This isn't only _my_ opinion, see:
Implementation Subcommittee Finding, IS/191, ATSC Implementation
Subcommittee Finding: Relative Timing of Sound and Vision for
Broadcast Operations, which is available on the ATSC Web site.
http://www.atsc.org/standards/is_191.pdf.
In a nutshell, ITU R BT.1359-1 was carefully considered and found
inadequate for purposes of audio and video synchronization for DTV
broadcasting.
and
http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/Tech-Corner/f_rh_technology_corner-01.07.04.shtml
I've been in the video business for a third of a century, and IMHO,
HDTV is not quite ready for prime time, and is being forced down the
public's throat. I also feel that in the best interests of National
Security, standard NTSC broadcasting and VHF band allocations should
be left as is, not only to service an alternate lower tier market, but
to provide a simple, durable, proven fallback method of
communications. But idiots and their cell-phones are clamoring to
claim the frequencies for their superior coverage/penetrating
abilities.
IMHO, there are other factors to consider as well. When an EMF burst
destroys all these cell-phones, satellites, DTV's and their supporting
infrastructure, good old ham radio and NTSC will be the only forms of
communications for quite some time.
Unlikely, perhaps, but terrorists & solar activity warn 'be prepared'.
The broadcast may be HD, but if the video isn't 16:9, it's certainly
not shot in HD.
Never claimed that it was shot in HD, and in fact, implied otherwise.
The chroma-crawl implies old analog and bad transcoding to DTV.
FWIW,
Greg G.
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