2009/12/30 Matt Barber <[email protected]> > Originally > black and white, delivered over huge sets with a lower resolution. Now > we have impressive looking glass things on the wall serving up really > good pictures over a digital medium. >
Interestingly 405-line and 625-line TV were described in their time as "high definition television"! I would say that the description of SD digital TV pictures as "really good" is possibly as generous as you can be. They WERE really good when BBC4/Cbeebies was the only things on Mux B. 12Mbps MPEG2 looks amazing, and even when it went down to 8Mbps it was excellent. But compared to analogue 625-line with a perfect set-up they look a little poor (also 4:3 or 14:9) they are technically inferior. > > I don't know what's next for TV (anyone's guess is as good as mine) > but I can have some fun imagining it too. > I hear BBC one HD and BBC TWO HD are on the cards... > > --Matt > > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Frank Wales <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rain wrote: > >> > >> Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have > nothing > >> better to to do instead? > > > > Oh, I know, I know! Is it: "debate the meaning of 'TV'"? > > -- > > Frank Wales [[email protected]] > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please > > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > > Unofficial list archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
