Digital TV: the picture really is horrible!
 

Bill Wright wrote:
"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Paul Ratcliffe
Aren't those Sky dishes the most flimsy bit of cack out?. Do they have
someone press them out of recycled tin cans?...

They are an embarrassment.

Bill


To recycled tin cans ? !!

:-)

Digital TV: the picture really is horrible!
 

In article , Dickie mint richard_tay
scribeth thus
Bill Wright wrote:
"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Paul Ratcliffe
Aren't those Sky dishes the most flimsy bit of cack out?. Do they have
someone press them out of recycled tin cans?...

They are an embarrassment.

Bill


To recycled tin cans ? !!

:-)

To just about any bloody thing!, every bit of it was loose and flopping
around the adjustments were **** poor and flimsy every time you adjusted
the poxy thing and tightened it up it would wander off the desired
point.

Worse made and designed Heap of cack in consumer use!...
--
Tony Sayer

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"Peter Watson" wrote in message


[snip]

: : Richard is correct - You said you've got a Thompson,
: : not a Thomson...
: :
: : BTW It's 'idiot'

== alt.pedant is that way ;-)

Ivor

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"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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"Peter Watson" wrote in message

[snip]

: : Richard is correct - You said you've got a Thompson,
: : not a Thomson... : : : : BTW It's 'idiot'

== alt.pedant is that way ;-)


mode=pendant
Shouldn't that be alt.spelling.correction ?
/mode

:~)

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: : : : : Richard is correct - You said you've got a
: : : : : Thompson, not a Thomson... : : : : BTW It's
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: : : == alt.pedant is that way ;-)
: : :
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No, a pendant is what your girlfriend wears round her neck..! Or maybe you
do, I don't know ;-)

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/pedant?view=uk


Ivor

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: : : [snip]
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: : : : : Richard is correct - You said you've got a
: : : : : Thompson, not a Thomson... : : : : BTW It's
: : : : : 'idiot'
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: : : == alt.pedant is that way ;-)
: : :
: :
: : mode=pendant
: : Shouldn't that be alt.spelling.correction ?
: : /mode
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: : :~)

No, a pendant is what your girlfriend wears round her neck..! Or
maybe you do, I don't know ;-)


1st law of Usenet and all that..... Oops! :~((

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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:20:01 -0700, "
wrote:

I haven't seen Reporting Scotland, either the old "bad" pictures, or
the new "good" ones,

If you had, you'd have noticed the large video backdrop.

but I don't think talking heads in a news studio
are really testing of MPEG-2!

It entirely depends on the amount of movement and detail but mainly
the compression. I've seen some grotty pictures from simple fairly
static studio shots (e.g. Bid TV) and grotty pictures from way over
the top shots (e.g. Eurovision Dance 'competition' last night).

--
Z

Digital TV: the picture really is horrible!
 

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:58:10 +0100, (Peter
Hayes) wrote:

But when they see their product destroyed in transmission they might
start asking embarassing questions.

...as football matches have been for years. I once asked a Scanner
Supervisor (who you know, btw) what he thought of the effort that goes
in to capturing high quality football video vs the wrecked grass and
cut-out footballers the punters see at home. The shrug of the
shoulders and the sigh for a reply said it all.

That's one way to force progress,
unless you are willing to surrender all policy making to bean counters.

...you've been away too long, Pete. Things have hugely changed and all
policy seems to be in the hands of bean counters with not enough beans
to go round.

As evidence, they seem to have now come to the interesting conclusion
that (English) BBC Resources is a 'non-core' operation to be sold off
although it is still seen as 'vital' to the BBC. To me, it looks like
they're skint (as usual) and are selling off the family silver to pay
for services - a trick they've been practicing since selling the
transmitters.

--
Z

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Zathras wrote:

As evidence, they seem to have now come to the interesting conclusion
that (English) BBC Resources is a 'non-core' operation to be sold off
although it is still seen as 'vital' to the BBC. To me, it looks like
they're skint (as usual) and are selling off the family silver to pay
for services - a trick they've been practicing since selling the
transmitters.

And don't forget Siemens have put in a bid to take over English Regions
Engineering, which must surely be considered as vital? :-(

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On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:13:08 +0100, Dickie mint
wrote:

And don't forget Siemens have put in a bid to take over English Regions
Engineering, which must surely be considered as vital? :-(

Wasn't that knocked back though? I know they have Engineering in
Scotland but am unaware of the exact position elsewhere.

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Z