[Tig] missing colorist credit

[Greg D.]

I've been enjoying my new 50" Sony SXRD HD TV for the last few days.
Replaced my 4 yr old 4:3 CRT (HD Sony XBR450).  I finally decided that the
SXRD technology looked as good or better than my tube tv for HD for 50"
images from my couch.  Actually I have also been impressed with how it
handles SD (extremely compressed DTV from Comcast cable including lots of
analogue feeds as well).  Whether being 1080 actually is an improvement from
the 720 sized chips of most LCDs and DLPs I'm not really sure base on my
cable sources.  HD has always looked good on sets larger than 36" but SD can
look really bad.

Anyway,  Discovery Channel's HD offerings via their Discovery HD Theater
programming includes a series called Discovery Atlas.  The first 3 episodes
have looked stunning, Discovery Atlas: China, :Italy and :Brazil.  They are
pretty good shows in my opinion and look darn good.  They're all shot in HD,
not film.  Lots of good looking slo-mo too.

China and Italy had Colorist credits but the Brazil one did not.  Why?
There's a post production credit for Films at 59.  Anyone lurking on the TIG
work at Films at 59?  Several editor credits and a f/x credit but no
colorist credit.  Surly there was a colorist or at least someone doing the
color work??

IMHO, the China show has looked the best of the 3 but the other 2 are close.
China was credited to be posted at the Farm Group, London.

Anyone want to brag about working on these shows color-wise?  They all seem
to have been produced and posted by different folks in many different
places.

-Greg Dildine
New Haven, CT
stay-at-home-Dad/former colorist

PS Sports look great in HD and CT based ESPN has helped get more HD on the
"air."  However, an up-converted MLS soccer game the other night looked
horrendous on their HD feed.  I didn't check the ESPN2 HD feed as I watched
via DVR playback.  But, the artifact that was so bothersome was
rainbows/chroma crawl on all black/wht transitions.  With all the
compression the errant extra chroma was magnified even further.  It looked
like they up-converted from analogue composite, an over the air reception
feed, who knows?  It looked like 3.58 crap to me.  could it have been?  it
was everywhere and very ugly.  BTW, this artifact is NOT from my TV nor the
DVR.  It's definitely in the feed.

PPS Hope no one minds this slightly off topic banter.  I imagine more folks
are hoping more HD work gets home looking as great as it did in your suite!
Especially if you guys are spending so much $ and so much time agonizing
over HD monitoring and those darn 32" BVM monitors (glad I left before the
tube went!)  I still find it odd that most spots are still not shown in HD
even when the programming is truly HD.