itv hd
 

Why, I wonder, does itv hd bother broadcasting Poirot in HD (14 Sept. 9pm)
when the programme uses soft focus lenses throughout?

Also, does anyone know why regional content in ads during itv hd output
appears to concentrate on the North (of England)?
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aa

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aa wrote:
Why, I wonder, does itv hd bother broadcasting Poirot in HD (14 Sept. 9pm)
when the programme uses soft focus lenses throughout?

It's certainly not the only HD programme to suffer that treatment,

Also, does anyone know why regional content in ads during itv hd output
appears to concentrate on the North (of England)?

ITV HD carries the Granada region ads.

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"aa" wrote:

Why, I wonder, does itv hd bother broadcasting Poirot in HD (14 Sept. 9pm)
when the programme uses soft focus lenses throughout?

Unwatchable :-(
I managed 5 minutes

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On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:16:04 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:
ITV HD carries the Granada region ads.
Does that in effect make it Granada HD?

Is this because Granada will be the first region to get HD terrestrially,
or because more people are watching ITV HD in the Granada region than any
other?

And are the commercials in HD?

itv hd
 

Mark Carver wrote:
aa wrote:
Why, I wonder, does itv hd bother broadcasting Poirot in HD (14
Sept. 9pm) when the programme uses soft focus lenses throughout?

It's certainly not the only HD programme to suffer that treatment,

Also, does anyone know why regional content in ads during itv hd
output appears to concentrate on the North (of England)?

ITV HD carries the Granada region ads.

Curiouser and curiouser, thanks Mark.
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aa

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J G Miller wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:16:04 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:
ITV HD carries the Granada region ads.
Does that in effect make it Granada HD?

Is this because Granada will be the first region to get HD terrestrially,
or because more people are watching ITV HD in the Granada region than any
other?

It's because (I was told by ITV's director of technology) the Granada ITV
region has the highest advertising revenue of the network. That surprised me,
because instinctively you'd think it's London. However, for accounting reasons
London is still split between Carlton Monday-Fri afternoon, LWT Fri Eve until
Sunday night. Therefore the North West is the largest ITV advertising region.

And are the commercials in HD?

Not sure, I suspect not at the moment ?


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Mark Carver wrote:
J G Miller wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:16:04 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:
ITV HD carries the Granada region ads.
Does that in effect make it Granada HD?

Is this because Granada will be the first region to get HD
terrestrially, or because more people are watching ITV HD in the
Granada region than any other?

It's because (I was told by ITV's director of technology) the Granada
ITV region has the highest advertising revenue of the network. That
surprised me, because instinctively you'd think it's London. However,
for accounting reasons London is still split between Carlton
Monday-Fri afternoon, LWT Fri Eve until Sunday night. Therefore the
North West is the largest ITV advertising region.
And are the commercials in HD?

Not sure, I suspect not at the moment ?

That's my hunch too - clean images but not particularly sharp.
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aa

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In article ,
aa wrote:
Why, I wonder, does itv hd bother broadcasting Poirot in HD (14 Sept.
9pm) when the programme uses soft focus lenses throughout?

BBC does the same.

For a long time some production people have thought removing definition
makes video look more like film. Probably because the only film they
watched was from the back row of some fleapit without their glasses to try
and impress some slapper.

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"aa" wrote in message
...
Why, I wonder, does itv hd bother broadcasting Poirot in HD (14 Sept. 9pm)
when the programme uses soft focus lenses throughout?

Also, does anyone know why regional content in ads during itv hd output
appears to concentrate on the North (of England)?
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aa

Because life dose exist out side the M25, mush to the surprise of those
within it.

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1 Because nobody knows what hd is and itv do not care
2 because itv probably sourced the feed from the north?

Brian

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"aa" wrote in message
...
Why, I wonder, does itv hd bother broadcasting Poirot in HD (14 Sept. 9pm)
when the programme uses soft focus lenses throughout?

Also, does anyone know why regional content in ads during itv hd output
appears to concentrate on the North (of England)?
--
aa

itv hd
 

In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
For a long time some production people have thought removing definition
makes video look more like film. Probably because the only film they
watched was from the back row of some fleapit without their glasses to try
and impress some slapper.

You're probably right. I've always regarded the reasoning behind the various
electronic attempts to impart a "filmic" look to television as two failures
of logic for the price of one-

1. They generally *don't* make television look much like film.

2. Even if they did, it wouldn't make the pictures any more realistic.

I suppose they both spring from a failure to understand that photography is
supposed to make a convincing presentation of the subject matter and not the
technology. Furthermore, attempting to make one type of technology imitate
another type of technology is even more irrelevant and doesn't tell the
story any better (and probably doesn't impress slappers either).

Rod.
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:39:07 +0100, heavyhorses wrote:
Because life dose exist out side the M25,
But not Life As We Know It ...

*mush* to the surprise of those within it.
That is what happens when you boil your tatties for too long.

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In message en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart writes
In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
For a long time some production people have thought removing definition
makes video look more like film. Probably because the only film they
watched was from the back row of some fleapit without their glasses to try
and impress some slapper.

You're probably right. I've always regarded the reasoning behind the various
electronic attempts to impart a "filmic" look to television as two failures
of logic for the price of one-

1. They generally *don't* make television look much like film.

2. Even if they did, it wouldn't make the pictures any more realistic.

I suppose they both spring from a failure to understand that photography is
supposed to make a convincing presentation of the subject matter and not the
technology. Furthermore, attempting to make one type of technology imitate
another type of technology is even more irrelevant and doesn't tell the
story any better (and probably doesn't impress slappers either).

Rod.

As an aside to this, has anyone else noticed the ridiculous touched-up
faces of the women in the L'oreal lipstick ads?

They may as well not use real women at all.
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Ian

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In article , Ian wrote:
As an aside to this, has anyone else noticed the ridiculous touched-up
faces of the women in the L'oreal lipstick ads?

They may as well not use real women at all.

They're not real women are they? I thought they used alien life-forms
called "supermodels" and "celebrities", which are probably genetically as
closely related to ral women as the weeds in my back garden.

Rod.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Ian
saying something like:

As an aside to this, has anyone else noticed the ridiculous touched-up
faces of the women in the L'oreal lipstick ads?

Or the bloody awful dubbing of English-speaking voices over German/Dutch
adverts? In Ireland we have to suffer some UK ads with Oirish voices
splattered over them with terrible sync. Frankly, I'd rather they just
left them in the original, as some do.
--

Dave

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In article ,
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
Or the bloody awful dubbing of English-speaking voices over German/Dutch
adverts? In Ireland we have to suffer some UK ads with Oirish voices
splattered over them with terrible sync. Frankly, I'd rather they just
left them in the original, as some do.

The vast majority of 'posh' ads are post synced anyway and often with
different actors - glamourous models don't always have the best voices.

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itv hd
 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)"
saying something like:

In article ,
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
Or the bloody awful dubbing of English-speaking voices over German/Dutch
adverts? In Ireland we have to suffer some UK ads with Oirish voices
splattered over them with terrible sync. Frankly, I'd rather they just
left them in the original, as some do.

The vast majority of 'posh' ads are post synced anyway and often with
different actors - glamourous models don't always have the best voices.

With what I know of the ad industry the dubbing on some of them is
probably left until five minutes before the deadline, which would
certainly explain the rubbish results on a few.
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Dave

itv hd
 

In article ,
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)"
saying something like:

In article , Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
Or the bloody awful dubbing of English-speaking voices over
German/Dutch adverts? In Ireland we have to suffer some UK ads with
Oirish voices splattered over them with terrible sync. Frankly, I'd
rather they just left them in the original, as some do.

The vast majority of 'posh' ads are post synced anyway and often with
different actors - glamourous models don't always have the best voices.

With what I know of the ad industry the dubbing on some of them is
probably left until five minutes before the deadline, which would
certainly explain the rubbish results on a few.

Could be. The best way would be to record the sound first and get the
actors to mine to that. But I suspect it's often the other way round.

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