Legal TV

While I'm moaning;

Legal TV. Quite interesting. Loads of old episodes of Crown Court
which I used to love.

BUT....Why is the aspect ratio wrong on every single program? Crown
Court was obviously 4:3 but doesn't fill the width of the screen. The
actors look like they've had dysnentry for the last three months.
Dipping in and out of the channel, every single program is screwed one
way or another.

Does no one monitor the quality of their output ? Is the system set
up by a bunch of morons ? If I was Legal TV I'd be suing someone.

norm

norm wrote:
While I'm moaning;

Legal TV. Quite interesting. Loads of old episodes of Crown Court
which I used to love.

BUT....Why is the aspect ratio wrong on every single program? Crown
Court was obviously 4:3 but doesn't fill the width of the screen. The
actors look like they've had dysnentry for the last three months.
Dipping in and out of the channel, every single program is screwed one
way or another.

Does no one monitor the quality of their output ? Is the system set
up by a bunch of morons ?

Evidently it is. Started to watch an episode - too painful.

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:51:12 +0000, Richard Oliver
wrote:

norm wrote:
While I'm moaning;

Legal TV. Quite interesting. Loads of old episodes of Crown Court
which I used to love.

BUT....Why is the aspect ratio wrong on every single program? Crown
Court was obviously 4:3 but doesn't fill the width of the screen. The
actors look like they've had dysnentry for the last three months.
Dipping in and out of the channel, every single program is screwed one
way or another.

Does no one monitor the quality of their output ? Is the system set
up by a bunch of morons ?

Evidently it is. Started to watch an episode - too painful.

I've just sent them an email with some constructive comments :-)

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While I'm moaning;

Legal TV. Quite interesting. Loads of old episodes of Crown Court
which I used to love.

BUT....Why is the aspect ratio wrong on every single program? Crown
Court was obviously 4:3 but doesn't fill the width of the screen. The
actors look like they've had dysnentry for the last three months.
Dipping in and out of the channel, every single program is screwed one
way or another.

Does no one monitor the quality of their output ? Is the system set
up by a bunch of morons ? If I was Legal TV I'd be suing someone.

norm

Yes Barry has a VCR again.

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While I'm moaning;

Legal TV. Quite interesting. Loads of old episodes of Crown Court
which I used to love.

BUT....Why is the aspect ratio wrong on every single program? Crown
Court was obviously 4:3 but doesn't fill the width of the screen. The
actors look like they've had dysnentry for the last three months.
Dipping in and out of the channel, every single program is screwed one
way or another.

Does no one monitor the quality of their output ? Is the system set
up by a bunch of morons ? If I was Legal TV I'd be suing someone.

norm

I remember when Crown Court was first transmitted.
There was one episode where the crime was committed
with the aid of a TV link between a boat at sea, and the shore.
I think the camera was attached to a gun-sight.

There was a UHF yagi at each end and IIRC the crime
was discovered by an engineer doing a survey for a
proposed local relay, who picked up the signal and gave evidence.
The technical detail was spot-on, and one of the very few dramas
I have seen where the storyline was written by someone with real
knowledge of technical matters.

There was another episode where the power transformer of
an oscilloscope was sabotaged to set fire to a lab.
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Graham.

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Graham.

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I remember when Crown Court was first transmitted.
There was one episode where the crime was committed
with the aid of a TV link between a boat at sea, and the shore.
I think the camera was attached to a gun-sight. There was a UHF yagi at
each end and IIRC the crime
was discovered by an engineer doing a survey for a
proposed local relay, who picked up the signal and gave evidence.
The technical detail was spot-on, and one of the very few dramas
I have seen where the storyline was written by someone with real
knowledge of technical matters.
There was another episode where the power transformer of
an oscilloscope was sabotaged to set fire to a lab.
Graham.

Sounds like one of Jim Folletts (JF) who haunts alt.satellite.tv.europe.
he wrote some episodes

Steve Terry

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I remember when Crown Court was first transmitted.
There was one episode where the crime was committed
with the aid of a TV link between a boat at sea, and the shore.
I think the camera was attached to a gun-sight. There was a UHF yagi at
each end and IIRC the crime
was discovered by an engineer doing a survey for a
proposed local relay, who picked up the signal and gave evidence.
The technical detail was spot-on, and one of the very few dramas
I have seen where the storyline was written by someone with real
knowledge of technical matters.
There was another episode where the power transformer of
an oscilloscope was sabotaged to set fire to a lab.
Graham.

Sounds like one of Jim Folletts (JF) who haunts alt.satellite.tv.europe.
he wrote some episodes
Steve Terry

found this
http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.c...ramacrown.html

Steve Terry

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I remember when Crown Court was first transmitted.
There was one episode where the crime was committed
with the aid of a TV link between a boat at sea, and the shore.
I think the camera was attached to a gun-sight. There was a UHF yagi at
each end and IIRC the crime
was discovered by an engineer doing a survey for a
proposed local relay, who picked up the signal and gave evidence.
The technical detail was spot-on, and one of the very few dramas
I have seen where the storyline was written by someone with real
knowledge of technical matters.
There was another episode where the power transformer of
an oscilloscope was sabotaged to set fire to a lab.
Graham.

Sounds like one of Jim Folletts (JF) who haunts alt.satellite.tv.europe.
he wrote some episodes
Steve Terry

found this
http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.c...ramacrown.html

Steve Terry
Very intresting. Although he is wrong about the Quadraplex
2 inch machines demanding a lot of light, that was the old
Marconi cameras. I used to spend most weekday afternoons
working at Quay St. and I remember when the Marconi
camaras were de-commisioned in favor of Ikegami CCD units.
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Graham wrote:


Very intresting. Although he is wrong about the Quadraplex 2 inch
machines demanding a lot of light, that was the old Marconi cameras.

and the early EMI ones too. 4 tube cameras needed lots of light


I
used to spend most weekday afternoons working at Quay St. and I remember
when the Marconi camaras were de-commisioned in favor of Ikegami CCD
units.

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From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

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The technical detail was spot-on, and one of the very few dramas
I have seen where the storyline was written by someone with real
knowledge of technical matters.

Technical knowledge? Not me. A principal witness was an IBA engineer so I
toddled down to their HQ near Winchester and they obligingly took over a
lab and installed a set-up that showed that the whole thing was possible.

IBA Winchester was a magical place, I visited it around 1984
when they were proudly demonstrating their new invention of D Mac
That bitch Maggi T out of spite got it closed

Watching the series today (it was first broadcast about 6 months before I
treated myself to a Philips VCR) I'm reminded how many writers and actors
and actresses cut our teeth on Crown Court. My wife wouldn't let me watch
a particular story because I had a tempestuous (and foolish) relationship
with one of the actresses. James Follett. Novelist (Callsign G1LXP)

Only one ? ;-)
You can't get to watch much old TV on that basis Jim!

Steve Terry