In article <fvfl7d022k1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I don't (yet) get RTN (I'm working on it). For now, I'm sure they are
still
> doing everything in 3:2 for the analog broadcasts. But if their
programming
> is mostly made up of these older TV shows, why not start ****fting things
over
> to a p24 format? I don't know if it would make much sense for these
shows to
> do anything more than 480p24. Most are probably shot in 4:3 aspect
ratio for
> TV, anyway, so going 720p24 would be pillarboxed, anyway (but solid set
black
> for the sides would at least reduce bandwidth a bit more).
And I'm waiting for them to turn RTN on over here. They've had the
"slate" up for more than a month now. (And they've probably been
breaking the E/I rules, even without showing any actual content other
than the station ID loop.) The fun part was when their encoder was
messed up for a couple of weeks and caused the picture to go blocky and
jump back and forth.
FYI, it's apparently going to be broadcasting in a 4:3 SD format. Since
this network is clearly oriented toward being a subchannel, it doesn't
make much sense to go HD. Widescreen SD maybe, but even then it's a bit
tricky to do a telecine from 4:3 film to a 16:9 video.
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