[opendtv] Re: 20040830 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: <tjharvey@xxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:01:07 -0400
I can also atest to obnoxiousness of 3:2 pull-down. Upon returning to North
America after many years abroad, I found the 3:2 pulldown very obvious and
annoying. However after six-months, I no longer noticed it!
A reverse incident: my parents returned to the UK after many years in North
America. Upon arriving in the UK in the early eighties, they bought a 27" Sony
(large then by UK standards) set. I recall my mother wanting to return it
because of the flicker. After a few months, the annoyance went away and she has
been content since! (My parents now have a huge 16X9 CRT display).
The last anecdote: Years ago, I worked with an engineer in the BBC nearing
retirement, who had spent most of his career working on 405 systems. Out of
curiosity, I tested his hearing and found he could not hear 10,125 Hz (the 405
horizontal scan frequency). He could hear above 10,125 and below 10,125 but not
10,125!
Regards,
Terry Harvey
>
> From: "Alan Roberts" <roberts.mugswell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/09/01 Wed AM 05:45:35 EDT
> 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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