24-06-2020, 02:53 PM
Yuck. I'd not realised that about the Color NTSC.
Buying two Ampex to do video editing in the 1950s wasn't a serious suggestion. You could do a not bad HD studio and edit suite for the price of one. Hence the stupidity of DRM. Even apart from the "leaks" at studios & filming from the projection booth, there has not been any point in DRM on video ever, cheap enough to point a good camera at a TV screen. Now with HD cameras and flat screens easy .Macrovision, DVD, BD, HDCP etc all just add expense or trouble for consumer (we ordered a Sky Box Office ONCE, long ago, and our Salora TV couldn't display it due the advanced Macrovision. The pre-recordered VHS tape version could be circumvented by pirates and caused tearing on many TVs).
DRM on ebooks is very evil. One researcher demonstrated a robot made from lego to turn the page for the photographic capture. Pirates cut the spine off a paper book and bulk scan. Then sell it on Google Playstore.
There should have been no Widescreen on Analogue (though hardly adopted PalPlus was a nice idea). Should have been delayed till Digital.
HD should have been solely 24, 48, 96 and no interface, which was a brilliant analogue era for 2:1 compression and is idiotic on digital. Also before maybe 1950 having frame rates related to mains frequency to avoid lighting flicker or moving hum bars had some sense, but film frame rates were already really old by the time real public TV started. Film doubled the frame rate at the projector, mechanically, I think before colour TV, hence 48. Also 96 fps is more useful than 4K resolution. I have glasses to make TV super sharp. I have a 48" 4K TV with HDR and can pick up several demo 4K satellite transmissions. They are underwhelming. I think you need 72" about
Buying two Ampex to do video editing in the 1950s wasn't a serious suggestion. You could do a not bad HD studio and edit suite for the price of one. Hence the stupidity of DRM. Even apart from the "leaks" at studios & filming from the projection booth, there has not been any point in DRM on video ever, cheap enough to point a good camera at a TV screen. Now with HD cameras and flat screens easy .Macrovision, DVD, BD, HDCP etc all just add expense or trouble for consumer (we ordered a Sky Box Office ONCE, long ago, and our Salora TV couldn't display it due the advanced Macrovision. The pre-recordered VHS tape version could be circumvented by pirates and caused tearing on many TVs).
DRM on ebooks is very evil. One researcher demonstrated a robot made from lego to turn the page for the photographic capture. Pirates cut the spine off a paper book and bulk scan. Then sell it on Google Playstore.
There should have been no Widescreen on Analogue (though hardly adopted PalPlus was a nice idea). Should have been delayed till Digital.
HD should have been solely 24, 48, 96 and no interface, which was a brilliant analogue era for 2:1 compression and is idiotic on digital. Also before maybe 1950 having frame rates related to mains frequency to avoid lighting flicker or moving hum bars had some sense, but film frame rates were already really old by the time real public TV started. Film doubled the frame rate at the projector, mechanically, I think before colour TV, hence 48. Also 96 fps is more useful than 4K resolution. I have glasses to make TV super sharp. I have a 48" 4K TV with HDR and can pick up several demo 4K satellite transmissions. They are underwhelming. I think you need 72" about
