Along those lines at the Incredibly Awesome Editor's Lounge with Tektronix engineer Steve Holmes and Mr. Hullfish it was pointed out at the scope presentation that even if you deliver 100% HD shows 80% of the viewers are still watching NTSC. Either through the Sat or Cable provider or with DTV converter boxes. It was also pointed out that usually to save Satellite space everything is uplinked HD and then the Cable Head ends etc.... commonly use I.R.D.s (Intergrated Receiver Decoders) that do the downconvert to SD and Mpeg and or H.264 that have absolutely no controls for the Head Ends to adjust anything. This was tied to the importance of still keeping the SD downconvert and composite conversions legal within the HD signal. Even with video and audio outputs on the set top boxes it is astonishing how many still view on ch. 3/4 through the RF modulator output.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, David Chmura <dchmura.lists@...> wrote:
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> My Mother has a 4:3, standard def TV. I have an HD monitor, of course. However, my Mother watches 100 times more TV than I do. That's something you need to consider...
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> On May 22, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
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> > I certainly understand that other networks require different specs, I was just checking on the validity of the PBS specs. They make sense to me. Obviously, there are "legacy" TVs out there still.... I say "Screw THEM!"
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> > There is no more hateful design aesthetic to me than a 16:9 screen with 4:3 safe title titles. :-)
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> > On May 22, 2012, at 3:38 AM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> >> Thanks for sharing your findings. Regardless of your findings many shows require 4x3 safe titles in HD shows. Direct TV letterboxes some network shows and others it center crops to SD boxes. Dennis posted that NBC news Center Cuts but the entertainment division letterboxes. So I've heard 5% cutoff is relatively standard and I've seen Panny consumer plasmas that have a crop and a full setting. Just another pain in the arse. If you thinks 80% safe title would look wrong you aren't watching much Network PrimeTime that has all titles 4x3 safe. ;-)
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