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

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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Mark
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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

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?

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

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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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
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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.

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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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