RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Fing Harding Piece of S^$##^* Does someone in LA have a Harding

Hi John, there's some info and links on their website if you're interested. It's beyond me. They don't do it for theatrical releases as far a I'm aware, but I will absolutely notice now when a film has been "Hardingized" for television. Ruined my enjoyment of Die Hard the other day, you can spot the luma reductions on the muzzle flashes straight away!

http://www.hardingfpa.com/about-us-resources/broadcast-guidelines/

Andi


To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: bigfish@pacbell.net
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 06:44:24 +0000
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Fing Harding Piece of S^$##^* Does someone in LA have a Harding


























So a few people had PSE episodes and subsequently they were able to figure out the exact red patterning that caused the episodes? In the reported cases were they able to determine the exact moment the PSE was induced? Red patterning sounds like a pretty broad statement.

Given the enormous amount of color, brightness and contrast variance in consumer monitors what's red on one monitor will be a different red on another. How does the surrounding environment effect the chance for PSE to be induced? What makes these "Red Patternings" or other aspects of the image unique to Television broadcast? Don't they occur in nature also? And are the same evaluations done to theatrical films? I'm not expecting you guys to know all the answers but these are the questions that come to mind for me. It just has the ring of, oh well that didn't quite work so now I'll try this. I'm clearly skeptical of trying to make a relatively exact science of something that seems hard to clearly define. I can't imagine they went back and made the people who had seizures watch the show again to see if they can pin point the problem, that would be inhuman.



--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tony Quinsee-Jover wrote:

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> About 9 months ago a programme that had passed Harding went on to trigger some PSE episodes. I believe it was a specific type of red patterning. A new algorithm was developed to catch it and a software update was released to all licensed Harding facilities.

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> Tony

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> Sent by magic over t'interweb

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> On 1 Mar 2013, at 07:41, Pat Horridge wrote:

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> > ... I believe there was a case if an issue with a Harding passed program and I believe the Harding checks have been Harding "modified"...

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