I know I'm not going to find a universal answer here. At least when we walked from edit C to the the tape room at KABC we new how the signal was getting out. I'm more curious about the actual delivery signal path of how a show gets to the direct tv folks and how it gets to time warner or some other cable group.
What I've experienced from my direct tv at home is that usually shows on Discovery's channel group look a little closer to the edit room. Of course not perfect but close. Now that I've been doing shows for CMT and Vh1 which are all under the Viacom group I generally notice a desaturation of the color. So I'm not looking for a cure but to understand if say all the Viacom channels go through the same uplink food chain so the common desaturation I see on CMT and VH1 on direct tv would make sense. Similarly do all Discovery's channels go through the same uplink food chain. It's really based on my lack of experience in the transmission process. I never count on my master looking the same at home but I can dream can't I.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <markraudonis@...> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > John Moore
> >
> > Barking Trout Productions
> >
> > Studio City, CA
> >
> > bigfish@
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
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