RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-11 Thread Adam Hatia
Inferior to Sky HD / Freesat / Virgin V+ then (broadcast at 1080i25), or is the compression lower? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 11 July 2008 11:10 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re:

RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-11 Thread Adam Hatia
Does anyone know of any study results or resources on perceived quality comparisons between various resolutions (e.g. 1080i25 vs 720p50) encodings?   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Jolly Sent: 11 July 2008 12:49 To:

RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-11 Thread Adam Hatia
Very interesting - many thanks! Hans Hoffman has done some research in this area for the EBU: http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_308-hdtv.pdf has some early qualitative opinions in, and there's a presentation of his more recent, quantitative work at

RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-10 Thread Adam Hatia
It claims to be true 1280x720 @24fps... http://vimeo.com/help/hd ... But wait, it can't really be HD... can it? Yes! It's real, true, actual high definition. No tricks. Some other sites (we won't name names) and even a few major media producers have been offering low resolution video as HD

[backstage] UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEAS£!

2008-07-04 Thread Adam Hatia
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Lockwood Sent: 04 July 2008 10:24 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100 Have you ever

RE: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-04 Thread Adam Hatia
I wish I could be excluded from this banal tit-for-tat kids game! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Phillips Sent: 04 July 2008 15:33 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100 On Fri

RE: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Adam Hatia
On the subject of open maps (or not so in the case of the OS), you might be interested in this project: http://openstreetmap.org/ (the idea being to create open free to use street map data) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [backstage] BBC Look East HTML rich newsletter

2008-06-05 Thread Adam Hatia
Brian, For example, you can't use the class operator to format items. I have used this rather basic function to translate my class items to the more basic style items: Actually, CSS stylesheets are fully supported by Outlook, Outlook Express, and Thunderbird at least, and I am using CSS to

RE: [backstage] BBC Look East HTML rich newsletter

2008-06-05 Thread Adam Hatia
. As you cannot know the client being used, you have to go for the common set of features. It's a common error to assume that everyone uses a particular client. 2008/6/5 Adam Hatia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brian, For example, you can't use the class operator to format items. I have used this rather basic

RE: [backstage] BBC Look East HTML rich newsletter

2008-06-05 Thread Adam Hatia
I agree that offering your audience the option of viewing either a text-only or html version is ideal. This can partly be achieved (email client support permitting) by including both the HTML version and the text-only version as alternate MIME parts. At least that way anyone who actually

RE: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-20 Thread Adam Hatia
FWIW, I think not everyone is the same in this regard. Personally, I also prefer to watch a clear picture with picture sound breaking up occasionally than every programme behind a snow scene, no matter how perfect the audio might be. I'd rather just listen to the radio if the latter was the