Posted by kim on 10/22/06 23:14

"Lee Mellows" <mellowsSPAM@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Jesus! What the fuck happened?
> Congratulations to the beeb on producing the worst-looking show on TV! Did
> no-one see the rushes? Why are all the shots so smeary? At some point
> someone made a decision to go with some new filming technology that
> obviously went horribly wrong. So why didn't they stop? The preview for
next
> weeks show looks no better. Was the whole series shot like this? Surely
> someone must have noticed that something was going very wrong with this
> show.
> I was really, really looking forward to this programme, but it's almost
> unwatchable, the bizarre visual quality completely ruins the drama,
utterly
> takes you out of the situation.
> I thought it looked odd on the previews, but I presumed that someone had
> been mucking about with the speed to give it that effect, but no, the show
> it self did actually look that bad. It makes it look as though it was shot
> on 30 year old cameras under low light conditions onto 1" stock.
> It's not an entirely new phenomenon either. Did anyone watch 'Blackbeard'?
> That looked fine while they were on board ship, but any time they cut to
one
> of the Governor's mansions the picture went all smeary and the black
levels
> became lifted, flattening the picture. Bizarrely , the same thing happened
> in the last episode of 'Extras'. When Jonathan Ross popped into Andy
> Millman's Dressing room, there it went again, smeary motion, flattened
> contrast etc. for three shots. The rest of the show looked fine, but that
> moment was really jarring.

Yet strangely no problems on either programme on my �35 Alba set top box
from Argos.

(kim)

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