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Obama looks like Blanka on European TV's. Is he black or green?
richms:
The green shift comes from using different colourspaces for the component to RGB and back again processes. Colourmanagement is an art, and most software for making web stuff has defaults that work well enough for most people, even tho they are often wrong for the source material.
hell, look how much stuff out there has black at 16 when played on a computer - not even changing the black levels between DV and computer...
Level42:
I watched it live yesterday. I recently changed to digital here and it looked absolutely perfect.
You gotta love digital TV decoding with a good old 16:9 CRT :)
(Trust me, black is black at my TV, not grey).
O, and I _was_ pretty surprised to see it was 16:9 format since that is still pretty uncommon in the US ?
It's a good thing to finally see we are leaving these system differences behind us.
My guess is that the "regular" news items we see here are (poorly) converted NTSC recordings and then the colors look pretty bad. However, the inauguration transmission was absolutely perfect picture quality.
I wonder how they did the subtitling though. You'd think they don't hand out the text of the speech beforehand, but small parts were not translated and then there were sentences already shown translated that Obama hadn't said yet :dunno .....
shardian:
--- Quote from: Level42 on January 21, 2009, 09:00:15 am ---O, and I _was_ pretty surprised to see it was 16:9 format since that is still pretty uncommon in the US ?
--- End quote ---
That's because this country is full of rednecks that say:
" I don't want no black bars on my TV! I'm gettin' ripped off of half the picture. DEY TUK AR JERBS!"
I should know...I used to be one. I shamefully (proudly back then) ordered my Star Wars box set VHS in full screen 'so I didn't have those damn black bars'.
Level42:
:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
Well at least one redneck is back home now to enjoy his 4:3 set :)
Over-here all transmissions are 16:9 now but not all European countries have switched (mainly Spain, Italy etc.)
Blanka:
Guess the subtitles were added live. Maybe they can delay the picture 5 seconds in the studio, so a live translator can do it on the fly, but seriously, I thought the translation was really crap. Especially in the end when Obama started to use college English there were big black spots in the translation.
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