Christopher Woods wrote:
Anyway, the cameras they were using had the holographic BBC <HD> logo plastered along the side of them, so things are looking up - unless they're just old skool SD cameras with a chavlike shopping list down the side of them! I wonder if the N24 cameras are similarly upgraded... It'd be nice to know that it's being filmed progressively, even if it's converted to interlaced for the final step, something which can always change in the future.
The BBC's announced plans to shift all production to HD by 2010 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4730000/newsid_4739000/4739094.stm), but it's not there yet. Don't assume that HD==progressive, incidentally - despite the fact that humankind has developed far better lossy compression mechanisms than interlace over the years, interlace still made it into the HD standards documents...
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