15-10-2023, 08:30 PM
Oh I don't think my hopes are up - to be honest it doesn't really make much difference to me not living in the region for over 10 years now. It's just nice to see the back of late 90s era cameras, and the grainy picture quality. Edit: The Thomson 1707 was marketed by Thomson between 1997 and 2003 - so one assumes BBC English Regions did a bulk order circa 2002...
I checked the weekend bulletin from Midlands Today and what is noticeable is the titles now feature a thin black band down the sides of the image which when they mix to the static shot they use the camera shot fills the frame. Their existing vision mixer is HD capable, so would I be right in assuming their playout server (which is still Quantel based) stores media in SD, or the titles were downscaled to SD before being added to the server?
I checked the weekend bulletin from Midlands Today and what is noticeable is the titles now feature a thin black band down the sides of the image which when they mix to the static shot they use the camera shot fills the frame. Their existing vision mixer is HD capable, so would I be right in assuming their playout server (which is still Quantel based) stores media in SD, or the titles were downscaled to SD before being added to the server?
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