JMS: More on UK/HDTV etc formats, etc.
Jonathan Roy
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Message 588 Mon Jun 14, 1993
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 06:18 EDT
BTW, regarding the TV Guide story (and it wasn't THE TV Guide, it seems,
but one published in a local newspaper's magazine style TV listings)...they
just got it wrong. That's the way some journalists do things: when you don't
know, make something up. I'd *LOVE* to know which newspaper that was just so
I could call them up and yank their chains for a while....
jms
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Message 598 Mon Jun 14, 1993
T.REED10 [Tom Reed] at 20:24 EST
STRACZYNSKI: Joe, besides the letterboxing format, here's another technical
question. When "ST:TNG" started, the British complained a lot about it because
of the video-based visual effects. They were added to the broadcast tape
masters directly in video post. That's fine for Americans, whose TV sets have
30 frames per second, but when "DICE-converted" to the British 25 frames per
second, there's flickering that annoys them. (Almost as annoying as the
strobing that showed up in the British-video "Muppet Show", converted the
other way.)
However, all your effects and computer animation are transferred directly to
film, and not run on video. So therefore, you can ship the film of the shows
to Great Britain intact to run on their systems. Or, for that matter, send the
film to motion picture theatres in countries without good television. Am I
right? Or am I way off base, and you're about to send Britain another case of
the "flickers?"
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Message 605 Tue Jun 15, 1993
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 20:19 EDT
As of this time, the target is to deliver on video on an "as we go"
basis. But at the end of each season, we'll be able to do high quality video
to film transfers, and *those* can be used for foreign stuff, for hdtv,
whatever, and (we're told) no flickeries.
jms
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Allen J. Newton
>Do you all prefer frequent short messages, or infrequent long messages?
My vote is for frequent short messages. If it hadn't been for this
message, there would have been nothing on this newsgroup today!
Thanks...
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Chris DuPuis
>In article <1vm26p$j...@eckserver.eckerd.edu> r...@eckerd.edu (Jonathan Roy) writes:
>>Do you all prefer frequent short messages, or infrequent long messages?
I prefer the long but infrequent format, as it makes weeding out
inconsequential little articles (like this one) very easy.
By the way, is it possible to include the questions that prompt the
answers in these posts?
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Jonathan Roy
- By the way, is it possible to include the questions that prompt the
- answers in these posts?
Not really.. .I only do it rarely when it's a very interesting
bit of info. It's not 'legal' to post GEnie messages without
the authors permission, and JMS has given a blanket
permission to report his messages. I'd have to contact the authors
to get permission for each question, and I don't have the time or
patience for that. ;)