Why can the BBC not get simple facts even about its own broadcastscorrect?

From http://www.bbc.co.UK/news/uk-13150117

Jchannon: Will the royal wedding be in HD or just upscaled to BBC One HD?

[Peter Hunt, Diplomatic and Royal Correspondent replies]

It won't, as you suggest, be filmed in HD. == filmed? Jchannon never suggested it would be filmed.
Since when (Baird?) has live television been
filmed for transmission?

The broadcasters, particularly SKY News, had wanted to. So the BBC did not paricularly want to do HD?

However, the idea was rejected by the Palace, particularly
because the cameras required would be too large. HD video cameras are too large are they?


Why does the BBC pay idiots to spout such garbage?

On 22/04/2011 2:45 AM, J G Miller wrote:

Fromhttp://www.bbc.co.UK/news/uk-13150117

Jchannon: Will the royal wedding be in HD or just upscaled to BBC One HD?

[Peter Hunt, Diplomatic and Royal Correspondent replies]

It won't, as you suggest, be filmed in HD.== filmed? Jchannon never suggested it would be filmed.
Since when (Baird?) has live television been
filmed for transmission?

The broadcasters, particularly SKY News, had wanted to. So the BBC did not paricularly want to do HD?

However, the idea was rejected by the Palace, particularly
because the cameras required would be too large. HD video cameras are too large are they?


Why does the BBC pay idiots to spout such garbage?



that's the exact comment they made when asked about 3D - maybe they are
confused.


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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:45:03 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:


From http://www.bbc.co.UK/news/uk-13150117

Jchannon: Will the royal wedding be in HD or just upscaled to BBC One HD?

[Peter Hunt, Diplomatic and Royal Correspondent replies]

It won't, as you suggest, be filmed in HD. == filmed? Jchannon never suggested it would be filmed.
Since when (Baird?) has live television been
filmed for transmission?

Is 'filmed' not legitimately used in a generic sense like video
footage, dialling phone numbers, fuse boxes etc?

"Scott" wrote in message ...


Is 'filmed' not legitimately used in a generic sense like video
footage, dialling phone numbers, fuse boxes etc?


Yes, it is. Of course it's technically wrong, but I think JG was being a
bit harsh on that particular point.

This business about HD cameras being too big, though - surely that's
********. I'd be amazed if the event isn't "filmed" with HD cameras. It
would be perverse not to.

I think Peter Hunt got mixed up between HD and 3D.

SteveT

In article ,
Steve Thackery wrote:
"Scott" wrote in message ...


Is 'filmed' not legitimately used in a generic sense like video
footage, dialling phone numbers, fuse boxes etc?


Yes, it is. Of course it's technically wrong,

and of course, real film people "shoot".

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In article ,
J G Miller writes:

From http://www.bbc.co.UK/news/uk-13150117

Jchannon: Will the royal wedding be in HD or just upscaled to BBC One HD?

[Peter Hunt, Diplomatic and Royal Correspondent replies]

It won't, as you suggest, be filmed in HD. == filmed? Jchannon
never suggested it would be filmed.
Since when
(Baird?) has live television been
filmed for
transmission?

The broadcasters, particularly SKY News, had wanted to. So the BBC
did not paricularly want to do HD?

However, the idea was rejected by the Palace, particularly
because the cameras required would be too large. HD video
cameras are too large are they?


Why does the BBC pay idiots to spout such garbage?

The BBC's Diplomatic and Royal Correspondent is possibly not the best
person to answer such a question. One wouldn't expect him to know much
about the technology, and I'm sure that that's not why the BBC pay him.
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:45:03 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:


From http://www.bbc.co.UK/news/uk-13150117

Jchannon: Will the royal wedding be in HD or just upscaled to BBC One HD?

[Peter Hunt, Diplomatic and Royal Correspondent replies]

It won't, as you suggest, be filmed in HD. == filmed? Jchannon never suggested it would be filmed.
Since when (Baird?) has live television been
filmed for transmission?

The broadcasters, particularly SKY News, had wanted to. So the BBC did not paricularly want to do HD?

However, the idea was rejected by the Palace, particularly
because the cameras required would be too large. HD video cameras are too large are they?


Why does the BBC pay idiots to spout such garbage?

The page has now been updated. Peter concedes he was mixing up 3D and
HD. The programme will be 'filmed' in HD.

To OP: if you object to the word 'filmed' would you care to suggest a
more suitable word that complies with the requrements of plain
English.

John Hall wrote:
In article ,
J G Miller writes:

Why does the BBC pay idiots to spout such garbage?

The BBC's Diplomatic and Royal Correspondent is possibly not the best
person to answer such a question. One wouldn't expect him to know much
about the technology, and I'm sure that that's not why the BBC pay him.

Then he should use journalistic rigour, and check his facts with someone that
does know the answer in greater detail, working for a broadcaster he's
surrounded by such individuals !

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Steve Thackery wrote:

This business about HD cameras being too big, though - surely that's
********.

Yes it is, they take up no more space than the most recent SD cameras, and
less space (and require a lot less light) than the old EMI-2001 and LDKs used
at Royal Weddings in the 70s and 80s

http://www.desinformado.com/2008/01/more-than-30-cameras-%E2%80%93-sony-hdc-3300-and-hdc-1500-%E2%80%93-to-capture-on-field-and-in-studio-action-for-the-big-game/

3G camera rigs are more cumbersome, but the lighting requirements are no worse
than HD.

http://www.live-production.tv/system/files/imagecache/FW_GALLERY/21_3D_Mirror_Rig_Cape_Town_1.JPG

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In article , Scott
wrote:


The page has now been updated. Peter concedes he was mixing up 3D and
HD. The programme will be 'filmed' in HD.

To OP: if you object to the word 'filmed' would you care to suggest a
more suitable word that complies with the requrements of plain English.


why not use the word "shot" as used in the firm industry?

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