The PAL video standard. Here is a link to an amusing page that describes the various standards, including the assertion that NTSC stands for Never Twice the Same Color. All I know is, NTSC is an abomination and gives me headaches.
As you know I am an unreconstructed analogue person, to the extent that I have my climate control in the car set on Fahrenheit.
I've got one of those digital boxes so I can see the Tour de France on ITV2 each year, but blimey isn't everything really shiny and false through that machine? I watch the proper channels in analogue because people actually look like real people, and places look like they do in real life.
The digital future may be shiny and exciting but i think I prefer the way the world looks at the moment.
And yes, when I went to America I was expecting it to be all in funny overbright colours, like American TV programmes were. What took a bit of getting used to was that America is the same colour as the rest of the world is.
Right, I'll go to bed now and stop getting in the way of progress.
Having got used to digiboxes, I find analogue broadcasts looks blurry and out-of-focus. There tends to be more of a 'shimmer' to digital TV, which I guess is because one can see the two fields making up each frame more clearly.
So yes, everything looks more shiny. And precise. Its like cleaning one's glasses, and getting a clearer view of the world.
Perhaps it's cos down here where everyone lives we have a stronger TV signal. Or maybe cos a bloke from John Lewis came round last summer with a big aerial and a small white box that made everything look nice.
But the world is still in analogue as far as I can tell. The trees outside my house are still hanging on to their old format for a bit longer.
So I still maintain the opposite to you - going back to analogue after the Tour de France in digital is like eating a proper strawberry after having one of those bright pink chewy things they sell in sweetshops - that artificial colour doesn't make it nicer.
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Date: 2004-08-05 03:25 pm (UTC)I've got one of those digital boxes so I can see the Tour de France on ITV2 each year, but blimey isn't everything really shiny and false through that machine? I watch the proper channels in analogue because people actually look like real people, and places look like they do in real life.
The digital future may be shiny and exciting but i think I prefer the way the world looks at the moment.
And yes, when I went to America I was expecting it to be all in funny overbright colours, like American TV programmes were. What took a bit of getting used to was that America is the same colour as the rest of the world is.
Right, I'll go to bed now and stop getting in the way of progress.
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Date: 2004-08-06 12:23 am (UTC)So yes, everything looks more shiny. And precise. Its like cleaning one's glasses, and getting a clearer view of the world.
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Date: 2004-08-10 03:11 pm (UTC)But the world is still in analogue as far as I can tell. The trees outside my house are still hanging on to their old format for a bit longer.
So I still maintain the opposite to you - going back to analogue after the Tour de France in digital is like eating a proper strawberry after having one of those bright pink chewy things they sell in sweetshops - that artificial colour doesn't make it nicer.