[Avid-L2] Re: Signal intergraty of broadcast/cable between channels?

John,

You should know better than to think you can win this battle! It's impossible to optimize for every delivery channel. Just impossible!

The only time I see anything close to what I see in our on-line room is when I bring home a Blu-ray of our shows. Then, I say, "Oh, that's what it's supposed to look like!"

But you already know that!

Mark

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> Okay my third series for the viacom folks premiered last night and of course everybody's viewing experience was different at their homes.  I know big whop been their heard it all before.  I've noticed that all the viacom series I've been doing over the last 7 months tend to look a little desaturated on my Sony at home feed from an old SD direct tv dish and converter box from the mid 90's.  I notice that all the adjacent programs appear similarly desaturated even the commercials.  I've been pushing the gamma saturation a little to compensate.  Looks fine in the bay.  Of course the execs are watching time warner cable and say it's too dark and way too saturated on their set.  I know there is no way to win but I'm curious what others feel about direct tv's image quality relative to cable systems.  Am I wrong to thing that the direct tv signal path is more direct (no pun intended) than a cable company.  Do cable companies compress the signal more or
> less than direct tv?  IIRC direct tv is an mpeg 2 stream.  Can anyone shed some light on the signal path from a cable network to direct tv vs. a cable channel?
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> John Moore
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> Barking Trout Productions
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> Studio City, CA
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> bigfish@...
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