23-02-2023, 07:48 PM
Understatement of the millennium: At least getting the regional variations onto the HD channel is massively overdue.
If numerous regional programmes are then produced/broadcast in upscaled SD for a (long or short) period thereafter, so be it. Removing the need for viewers to change channel has always been the key issue, in my humble opinion.
I wonder how many people have regularly ended up watching the subsequent evening schedule in SD because they forget/can't be bothered/don't care/don't percieve the picture quality difference to switch back at 7pm?
Many years from now, we may all be looking back on the Red Screen Of Death with misty-eyed nostalgia. It is just another one of those strange symptoms of the limitations of television during a particular time period, analogous to things like the test card, start-up & closedown routines, "afternoon programmes follow shortly", the UK Today era of digisat BBC One, etc etc.
If numerous regional programmes are then produced/broadcast in upscaled SD for a (long or short) period thereafter, so be it. Removing the need for viewers to change channel has always been the key issue, in my humble opinion.
I wonder how many people have regularly ended up watching the subsequent evening schedule in SD because they forget/can't be bothered/don't care/don't percieve the picture quality difference to switch back at 7pm?
Many years from now, we may all be looking back on the Red Screen Of Death with misty-eyed nostalgia. It is just another one of those strange symptoms of the limitations of television during a particular time period, analogous to things like the test card, start-up & closedown routines, "afternoon programmes follow shortly", the UK Today era of digisat BBC One, etc etc.