Michael Torrie wrote: > Barry Roberts wrote: >> As long as there isn't too much motion. Watching the part of "Venom >> Cure" where the camera was panning over dry bush and following a brown >> snake was like watching a cubist nightmare. > > Yeah, the decisions that broadcasters make in regards to compression can > really make HDTV look awful. >
Yup. Sometimes they even screw things up so bad normal people can tell - usually with aspect ratios. Local NBC channel broadcast the grinch in HD... pillarboxed. I see this all the time. People with 4:3 TVs see a half-resolution square in the middle of the TV. People with HDTVs wouldn't know the difference if they broadcast it properly. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
