BBC Parliament now full screen

LOL!

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On 14 Nov 2006, "Agamemnon"
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Video resolution on 301 and 302 is now 544x576

Snooker will be fun then "for those of you watching on Freeview, the Pink
cube is behind the brown fuzzy object"

Adrian

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On 14 Nov 2006, "Agamemnon"
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Video resolution on 301 and 302 is now 544x576

Snooker will be fun then "for those of you watching on Freeview, the Pink
cube is behind the brown fuzzy object"

Adrian



Serves the snooker viewers right!

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Julian Barker

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though I don't know what it is a plan for.
- Sir Fred Hoyle 1915-2001

Mark Carver wrote:
wrote:
joefish wrote:

BBC4 is unchanged at 720x576 and 256kbps audio, thank heavens.

I'm glad about BBC4, but it means the occasional interesting musical
item on BBCi will now have lower quality audio _and_ video to give-
great! Roll on 64QAM. (in, what, 6 years?! ).

Less than that for you. When's Anglia's DSO date ?

2011 IIRC. I don't think anyone around here cares (unless they read and
believe Sky's "from 2007..." stuff).

It's strange the BBC uses 720 pixels, since they're blanked down to
~702 pixels by most STBs, they might as well use just 702. The same
argument can be made for 528 over 544, but I'm not sure 528 is within
the DVB standard.

I think my Topfield displays all 720. I get a very thin side bar on ITV
and C4 at 704. (My TV is very 'underscanny' )

Really? Try CBeebies (e.g. postman pat, bob the builder, fireman sam) -
these are all ~702 centred into a 720 frame. The links on that channel
are ~702, but aligned right into a 720 frame (typical camera "fault")
with lots of black on the left.

Can you see the black bars on that stuff? If so, you must see black
bars on a heck of a lot of content. If not, the issue isn't 704 pixels,
but something else. I bet even the 704 pixel channels often contain
black at the edges, but I haven't looked.

I noticed planet earth was the only programme on our pace twin with
every single pixel lit at 720x576. Most of the time at least. I
couldn't care less myself - our TV is typically overscanned, while
MediaPlayerClassic on the PC has a handy zoom feature.

Cheers,
David.

wrote:

I think my Topfield displays all 720. I get a very thin side bar on ITV
and C4 at 704. (My TV is very 'underscanny' )

Really? Try CBeebies (e.g. postman pat, bob the builder, fireman sam) -
these are all ~702 centred into a 720 frame. The links on that channel
are ~702, but aligned right into a 720 frame (typical camera "fault")
with lots of black on the left.

I don't watch Cbeebies very often, but what I have glimpsed is an awful
lot of native 12F12 (4:3) material ARC'd to 14P16 (14:9 pillarbox), but
I assume you're not referring to that effect ? (As per 4:3 footage on
BBC News?). Sounds as if the blanking within the pres studio is all
mucked up, that will be well upstream of any DVB coding kit.

Mark Carver wrote:
wrote:

I think my Topfield displays all 720. I get a very thin side bar on ITV
and C4 at 704. (My TV is very 'underscanny' )

Really? Try CBeebies (e.g. postman pat, bob the builder, fireman sam) -
these are all ~702 centred into a 720 frame. The links on that channel
are ~702, but aligned right into a 720 frame (typical camera "fault")
with lots of black on the left.

I don't watch Cbeebies very often, but what I have glimpsed is an awful
lot of native 12F12 (4:3) material ARC'd to 14P16 (14:9 pillarbox), but
I assume you're not referring to that effect ? (As per 4:3 footage on
BBC News?).

No, this is native 16:9 content - it just has ~8 pixels of black either
side @ 720.

Sounds as if the blanking within the pres studio is all
mucked up, that will be well upstream of any DVB coding kit.

It seems to be on the source(s). IIRC some trailers, idents or
animations light up almost all pixels.

They do have a lot of yucky 14:9, but I haven't recorded any of that.

Cheers,
David.