[Avid-L2] Re: 3D monitors and finishing

Hey 3's company was high quality technically at the time as was Sanford and Son. In high school I had a field trip with the marching band to Disneyland to play and we got to see a taping of Chico and the Man at NBC Burbank. I was so into TV production at the time I watched the stage like a hawk and those guys had their act together. I even talked a cameraman out of his shot sheet at the end of the night. I was on cloud 9. Content aside those shows were using the latest a greatest at the time. Can't speak to what generation of masters are airing now but there was a lot of effort technically on those shows by real tv engineers and operators. Besides they didn't have any firewire back then. ;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tod Hopkins <hoplist@...> wrote:
>
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:38 PM, oliverpetersvidy wrote:
> > > Pat wrote:
> > > and the quality viewers will accept has dropped to an all time low.
> >
> > I think that's a fallacy. Viewers never made the quality
> > determination.
>
> Quite true. Since when did I have a choice? A&E Biography is what it
> is, but I like it. What would you suggest I do? Write A&E and tell
> them to up their game?
>
> Now if I happen to have the opportunity to watch the same show on two
> channels, and one is HD, I'll choose the HD channel. But I'm not
> going to watch the Tonight show in HD if I could be watching It Might
> Get Loud in SD (not that IMGT is technically poor).
>
> Further, I'm not a believer that Technical standards have dropped
> except maybe on average. And that's merely because there is so much
> more content now, and the additional content is produced to lower
> standards because it's not possible to produce dramatically increased
> volume at the highest standards.
>
> Go back and watch 20 year old PBS shows, or for that matter Sanford
> and Sons or Three's Company. You seriously want to make the case that
> "quality" standards have dropped?
>
> Tod Hopkins
> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> todhopkins@...
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