Poor picture on BT Vision Freeview box but good picture on TV's Freeview decoder
Wed, 7 May 2008 19:50:11 +0100
Is there any known problem with the Freeview decoder in a BT Vision box that
makes it need a stronger aerial signal than other Freeview decoders?
I was installing a BT Vision box for a customer last night and I noticed
that most channels had very pixellated, blocky pictures with lots of JPEG
artifacts around ...
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Mark Thompson DG BBC - Hail to the Chief
Tue, 6 May 2008 23:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdlUrzSXx8
A heartfelt tribute to the great Director General of the BBC - a
forthright,confident and often daring leader at the helm of the
world's greatest and oldest broadcasting organisation steering it
confidently and with great vision and deep insight into the multi-
platfor ...
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And so it begins...
Tue, 6 May 2008 11:30:48 +0100
More 4, E4 and their +1 equivalents went FTA some time around 10.30am.
There's a FTA version of Channel 4 (London) on SID "8350", too, but
that's been around for about two weeks.
--
Paul Martin <pm@zetnet.net> ...
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Strange Channel 4 fault caption
Sun, 4 May 2008 16:51:08 -0700 (PDT)
Does anyone know the source of this 80s-style blue screen caption?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMuyqfJxFCM
It appears to have been generated at the transmitter site when its
network feed was lost.
I've seen similar captions on old off-air ITV recordings; they
appeared on-screen after the channel had closed ...
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Indiana Jones
Sun, 04 May 2008 16:43:15 -0500
Has anyone else been watching the Indiana Jones film on BBC1?
I was uncomfortable with the picture shape. In 4:3 it was obviously wrong
but in 16:9 it didn't look right either. Things seemed slightly squashed
vertically.
It was pan and scanned from CinemaScope, or whatever, but it was
uncomfortable to watc ...
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Wide chrominance blanking on Snooker
Sun, 4 May 2008 12:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
On the current snooker coverage on BBC-2, some of the cameras have a
few pixels at each edge that are monochrome! Seems these are "Sony
type 500" cameras - does anyone know anything about these, and why
there should be excessive chrominance blanking? ...
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Re: French TV Station Technician presses the wrong button.......
Sun, 4 May 2008 00:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 7, 9:58 pm, Z...@0spam.want.no.spam.zzz (Zero Tolerance) wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:27:43 GMT, Roger Wilmut
>
> <rfwil...@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Some years ago the firm who had the contract for copying Disney's
> >issues on VHS, among other studios, had a batch of a porn movie surplus
> >to requ ...
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Re: French TV Station Technician presses the wrong button.......
Sat, 3 May 2008 08:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Would never happen over here of course!...
I remember the days when New Year's Eve was the time to watch the
Eurovision feeds.
We did take the precaution of removing the channel amps in Network. ...
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Re: "PC World" magazine on TV formats etc.
Fri, 2 May 2008 19:51:39 +0100
Mortimer wrote:
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>> Won't they be talking Pixels?
>
> Yes, don't the 720p and 1080p formats have more pixels in the
> horizontal direction as well - so 720p would be (720/576) ^2 (ie
> 1.6) times the number pixels for 768x576 or 720x576 and 1080 will be
> (1080/576) ^2 (ie 3.5).
Hmm, to me "resolution" me ...
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Copper-clad steel RG11 or copper RG6?
Thu, 1 May 2008 18:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
Trying to pick a cable... and as always, budget is an issue.
I need to carry up to 200 ft. (with change) of 1080i Analog HD
component, which runs anywhere between 22 and 37 MHz (no SDI needs, at
least). Looking at attenuation at 74MHz, it seems to come down to one
of these options:
Gepco VB1460: 14AWG copper ...
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