[opendtv] Re: News: See the Big Picture? Don't Forget to Examine the Fine Print
- From: "Alan Roberts" <roberts.mugswell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 18:58:23 +0100
OK, I'll accept that. The word analogue was required to avoid confusion.
Also, you should have taken out "BBC" because although ALL UK analogue
channels are 4:3, they sometimes carry widescreen programming
cropped/letterboxed to 14:9 and sometimes deep letterboxed as 16:9. BBC
Sport doesn't do either, they crop to 4:3 so that it fills the screen in
analogue. It's very dangerous making statements about what's actually done
in the UK, without direct access to it to check.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: See the Big Picture? Don't Forget to Examine
the Fine Print
> At 8:43 AM +0100 5/4/04, Alan Roberts wrote:
> >No Craig, 16:9 in the Digital channels in the UK, 14:9 on the analogue
ones.
> >If your going to tell people off at least get your facts right. 16:9 is
the
> >worldwide standard for digital television, look in the SMPTE and ITU
> >documents and you'll not find any other shape.
> >
>
> Actually I wrote:
>
> 4:3 on the NTSC channels
> 16:9 on the DTV channels
> 14:9 on BBC channels in the UK.
>
> I don't see any errors here, unless you want to pick nits about the
> fact that the BBC offers both analog and digital services. It would
> have been more correct to say BBC analog channels in the U.K.
>
> The reality is that content producers must take all of these aspect
> ratios into consideration today.
>
> As for the SMPTE and ITU documents, they are indeed standards. But
> there are many standards in the world of entertainment technology.
> The film industry has hundreds of them. Just because one very
> powerful special interest group WANTS the world to migrate from 4:3
> to 16:9 does not make it reality.
>
> The reality is that picture aspect ratios are "soft" in every imaging
> industry EXCEPT for TV.
>
> The reality is that I can create content in any aspect ratio today.
>
> The reality is that I can use the same MPEG encoding tools to deliver
> video source in any arbitrary aspect ratio today; this is the way the
> standard was designed to work, and the reality is that Hollywood is
> doing this today.
>
> The reality is that many CD and DVD delivered multimedia titles
> provide content in multiple aspect ratios, as appropriate for the
> content.
>
> Most important: the reality is that broadcasting is the tail wagging
> the dog of digital television today. To assume that the world of
> digital media that will exist in say 20 years will look like this
> world is absurd.
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
>
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