Price Of Lightbulbs

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Depends on the source. Quite a bit of analogue gear still in use, especially for news, etc. And outside broadcasts.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

When will you get it into your thick head that everyone in broadcasting would be delighted if a suitable LCD etc monitor was available? They have lots of advantages. Unfortunately picture quality ain't one of them.

[tony sayer]

Yeabut the Pal signal is derived from digital decoders at the TX albeit there're fed at some 34 M/bits ;!..

[Huge]

As used by the BBC Corporation to display TV vision.

[Bob Eager]

I thought the BBC tried to avoid tautology.

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

You know Dave, I read that comment from him briefly and though to myself "That's the sort of crap old Foggy would spout." Then I looked and that's who it was!.

Maybe he should get a job on the stage? Sweeping it? :-)

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

It's what your PIN number would be displayed on. :-)

[Bob Eager]

I thought that was an LCD display!

[dennis]

The BBC were responsible for that kit.

[dennis]

Analogue is digital anyway, you can only have intensity in multiples of photons. So bang goes your analogue.

[geoff]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

Dennis hits the endstop on the track to absurdity

Just another example of his inability to keep a sense of proportion

[Andy Champ]

I was impressed by the beginning of "The History of Scotland" the other day, watching on analogue. It started in 16:9 letterbox (or maybe even more - I didn't measure) for the landscapes etc. in the early sequences, then the picture "grew" vertically over about 30 seconds (presumably by cropping the edges) up to a 14:9 ratio. very smoothly too.

So someone still cares.

Andy

[dennis]

Its quite common for the titles to be letterboxed, they might not fit if they aren't.

[<me9]

It started in somewhat more than 16:9 letterbox on my 16:9 TV. Prolly nearer the cinema widescreen of 2.35:1

[Jules]

Well "CRTT" just sounds silly, doesn't it - plus then someone would go and invent a CRTT tube. It'd never end.

(Maybe they should have been CRVs in the UK, anyway)