[Tig] Deadwood or HBO snafu?

[Jan & Eileen]

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Gee, I hope you're wrong, Bob....  If you're correct
It does not bode well for quality.....

This is frustrating:  More I see this, the more I believe you are
Correct, and I'm seeing some sort of compression limitations..
Kind of like what older Accom NR's without median filters used to to. 

Darn! Between Compression in Profile's and Cable Systems, 
If this is all the bandwidth we're gonna get, Why not stick with an FDL-60
or MKIIIC, if that's all they will 'dole out' to us?   

For some reason, I didn't think it would be 'that' obvious..... 







-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us] 
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 10:46 AM
To: Jan & Eileen
Cc: 'Andrew'; tig at tig.colorist.org
Subject: RE: [Tig] Deadwood or HBO snafu?

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Jan & Eileen wrote:

> I'm trying to get to Cable Company to see it at their location.
>
> Please confirm... Are Blacks solidly clipping with no detail, and at this
> point, is there a subtle green or blue cast on that black?
>
> Does anyone know for certain if Comcast is limiting video to RGB
Colorspace?

Your cable company is likely doing head-end recompression in order to 
fit more channels in the same size pipe and make it easier to insert 
pop-up adds.  Their primary objective is to make more money, not offer 
better quality to the customer.  99% of cable viewers either don't 
have the hardware to see the difference, use hardware which is 
severely out of whack, or would not notice the problem if they saw it.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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