[opendtv] Re: 20040830 Mark's Monday Memo

  • From: "Alan Roberts" <roberts.mugswell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:44:42 +0100

Yes, that's exactly true. It's what we've all been doing since films were
first shown on tv. It's normal for us, we're happy with it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 12:01 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20040830 Mark's Monday Memo


> And, mostly dubbed or subtitled from English ?
>
> John Willkie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Don McCroskey
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:41 PM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20040830 Mark's Monday Memo
>
>
> Does that mean that "the vast majority of Europeans" don't mind
> watching picture and sound at a speed that is 4% higher than the film
> acquisition rate?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Roberts
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:46 AM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20040830 Mark's Monday Memo
>
> The 3:2 pull-down that 60Hz demands for showing film looks truly
> appalling to the vast majority of Europeans. It's really horrid. NTSC
> dvds sold here are rapidly junked in favour of proper ones, not only
> sharper but much more regular smooth motion. From time to time, a
> purchase deal for a US film-made programme goes wrong and we get a
> standards-conversion of the 59.94Hz video instead of a proper rescan
> of the film. Phone lines get hot with the public complaints.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Wilkins" <Barry.Wilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:59 AM
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20040830 Mark's Monday Memo
>
>
> > I have the same "problem" looking out my lounge window every days
> end.
> > The new plasma display sits in the corner beckoning me to watch. But
> my
> > eyes are drawn across the bay to the distant snow covered mountains
> and
> > the setting sun.
> >
> > Now that I've been "educated" on this issue of flicker, I note with
> a
> > bit of research that Europeans apparently can suffer a similar
> annoyance
> > problem with film judder due to 3:2 pull down that, according to the
> > document I'm reading, does not affect Americans as they have "grown
> used
> > to it from childhood"
> >
> > Barry Wilkins=20
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Schubin [mailto:tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> > Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2004 2:51 p.m.
> > To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20040830 Mark's Monday Memo
> >
> >
> > > Whilst in NZ Mark, did you see any of the dreaded 50Hz flicker
> > syndrome?
> >
> > Barry Wilkins =3D20
> >
> > Alas, yes.  We were shooting in Wellington and also noticed it in
> hotels
> > in Fox Glacier, Haast, Dunedin, and Christchurch.
> >
> > But it was hard to think about watching TV in such a wonderful
> place.
> >
> > TTFN,
> > Mark
> > =20
> > =20
> >
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